THE 



BOOK OF THE PROPHET 



ISAIAH. 



TRANSLATED FRO 31 THE 



HEBREW TEXT OF VAX DER HOOGHT. 



BY THE 

REV. JOHN JONES, M.A, 

PRECENTOR OF CHRIST CHURCH, 



OXFORD, 

PRINTED BY W. BAXTER , 
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ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE original intention of the translator was 
to have laid a Welsh version only of Isaiah 
before the public. The present English trans- 
lation was completed, in order the more easily 
to obtain the advice and opinion of those friends 
in the University, and others, who being ac- 
quainted with the Hebrew language, but not with 
the Welsh, would thereby be enabled to assist 
him in clearing up the difficulties with which 
the text abounds. It is now published with 
the sincere hope that it will prove interesting 
and useful not only to the English reader, but 
also to the student in Oriental literature. 

The translator has adhered to the received 
text as given by Van der Hooght ; and has 
followed the system of the Masoretic points. 
In further elucidation of the obscurities, he has 
diligently compared the versions and illustra- 



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tions of numerous commentators, and biblical 
critics*. 

Those who have had the opportunity of 
attending the Lectures of the late Hebrew 

* The following list contains some of the works the 
translator has consulted. 

Biblia Sacra, Latine, a Tremellio et Junio. Geneva?, 
1617. 

Critica Sacra, a Ludov. De Dieu. Amstelaedami, 1693. 

Commentarius super illustres Prophetias Isaias, opera 
et studio Seb. Schmidt. Hamburgi. 

Commentarius in Lib. Proph. Isaiae, 2 vol. cura et 
studio C. Vitringa. Leovaridiae, 1/14. 

Dr. Waterland ; see, Commentary on the Holy Bible. 
3 vol. by William Dodd, LL.D. London, 1/67- 

Isaiah : a new translation, by Robert Lowth, D.D. 
London, 1 7/8. 

Esaias, Latine, a J. Ch. Doederlein. Altorfi, 1780. 

Prophetae majores, Latine, a J. Aug. Dathio. Hal*. 
1785. 

Scholia in Vetus Test, a E. F. C. Rosenmiiller. Lip siae, 
1791. 

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah. By J. Stock, D.D. 
Bath, 1803. 

Appendix Hermeneutae* seu exercitationes exegeticae; 
a Johanne Jahn. Viennae, 1813. 

Der Prophet Isaiah. Neu ubersetzt von Wilhelm 
Gesenius. Leipzig, 1820. 



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Professor, Dr. Nicoll, will probably, in the 
earlier parts of the work, find many passages in 
the rendering of which they will trace valuable 
and learned criticisms of that distinguished 
Scholar ; to whom the translator is indebted 
for his kind and able assistance. 

The translator has also to acknowledge the 
assistance he has received from the Reverend 
Stephen Re ay, M. A. of St. Alban Hall, the 
author of the very accurate and useful analysis 
of a portion of the Hebrew Scripture upon the 
principles of Schrceder's Hebrew Grammar, 
entitled, Narratio de Josepho. 

Christ Church } Oxford, 
Oct. 4, 1830. 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. I. 

THE VISION OF ISAIAH THE SON OF AMOZ 5 
WHICH HE SAW CONCERNING JUDAH AND 
JERUSALEM; IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH, 
JOTHAM, AHAZ, HEZEKIAH, KINGS OF 
JUDAH. 

2 Hear, O ye heavens; and give ear, O earth! 
For Jehovah speaketh. 

I have nourished and brought up children ; 
And they have rebelled against me. 

3 The ox knoweth his owner, 
And the ass his master's crib : 
[But] Israel knoweth not; 
My people cloth not consider. 

4 Ah, sinful nation! people laden with iniquity ! 
Seed of evil-doers! children that are corrupters! 
They have forsaken Jehovah, 

Have despised the Holy One of Israel; 
Have gone off backward. 

5 Why will ye be smitten any more ? you will 

still revolt: 

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ISAIAH. chap. i. 



The whole head is sick, and the whole heartfaint: 

6 From the sole of the foot to the crown of the 

head, there is no soundness ; 
[But] wounds, and lashes, and fresh stripes : 
They havenotbeen pressed out, neither bound up, 
Nor raollified with oil. 

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burnt 

with fire ; 

Your land, strangers devour it before your eyes; 
It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 

8 And the daughter of Zion is left alone, as a 

shed in a vineyard ; 
As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a city 
saved. 

9 Had Jehovah of hosts not left us the smallest 

remnant, 

We had been as Sodom ; we had become like 
unto Gomorrah. 

10 Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O ye princes of 
Sodom! 

Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of 
G omorrah ! 

1L Why to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? 
saith Jehovah : 
I am satiated with the burnt-offerings of rams, 

and the fat of fed beasts ; 
And in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and 
of he-goats, I have no delight. 
12 When ye come to appear before me. 



CHAP. I. 



ISAIAH. 



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Who hath required this at your hand, to tread 
my courts? 

13 Bring no more insincere oblation, 
Incense ! it is an abomination unto me; 

The new moon also, the sabbath, and the pro- 
claiming of an assembly; 

I cannot endure iniquity, even the solemn as- 
sembly; 

14 Your new moons, and your appointed festivals, 

my soul hateth : 
They are a burden unto me ; I am weary of 
bearing them. 

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will 

hide mine eyes from you : 
Even when ye multiply prayer, I will not hear: 
Your hands are full of blood, 

16 Wash ye, make ye clean ; 

Remove ye far away the evil of your doings 

from before mine eyes ; 
Cease to do evil : 

17 Learn to do good; seek after justice; correct 

the evil-doer ; 
Do justice to the orphan ; plead for the widow. 

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith 

Jehovah : 

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be 

white as snow ; 
Though they be red as crimson, they shall be 

like wool. 

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ISAIAH. 



CHAP, I, 



19 If ye be willing and obedient, 
Ye shall eat the good of the land ; 

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, 

Ye shall be devoured by the sword : 

For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it. 

2L How is the faithful city become an harlot! 
She that was full of judgment, righteousness 

lodged in her ; 
But now murderers ! 

22 Thy silver is become dross; 
Thy wine adulterated with water. 

23 Thy princes are rebellious and associates of 

robbers ; 

Every one of them loveth a bribe, and hunteth 

after rewards : 
For the orphan they procure no justice; 
And the cause of the widow cometh not before 

them. 

24 Wherefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, 

the mighty One of Israel : 
Ah ! I will ease me of mine adversaries, 
And I will be avenged of mine enemies. 

25 And I will direct mine hand against thee, 
And entirely melt out thy dross, 

And remove all thy tin : 

26 And I will restore thy judges, as at the first; 
And thy counsellors, as at the beginning : 
Then thou shalt be called, 



CHAP. II. 



ISAIAH. 



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A town of righteousness, a faithful city. 

27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, 

And those that return unto her, with righteousness, 

28 But the destruction of revolters and sinners 

shall be together; 
And they that forsake Jehovah shall perish. 

29 Then shall men be ashamed of the grove of 

turpentine trees, which are your delight; 
And ye shall blush for the gardens, which ye 
have loved : 

30 For ye shall be as the turpentine tree, whose 

leaves are withered ; 
And as a garden, wherein there is no water. 

31 The powerful shall become as tow, 
And his work as a spark of fire 5 

And they shall burn both of them together; and 
none shall quench them. 

CHAP. II. 

THE WORD WHICH WAS REVEALED TO ISAIAH. 
THE SON OF AMOZ, CONCERNING JUDAH 
AND JERUSALEM. 

2 It shall come to pass in the latter days, 
That the mountain of the house of Jehovah 

shall be established on the top of the 

mountains ; 
And it shall be exalted above the hills : 
And all the nations shall flow unto it. 

3 And many peoples shall go, and say ; 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. II. 



Come on ? and iet us go up to the mountain of 

Jehovah ; 
To the house of the God of Jacob: 
And he will teach us of his ways; 
And we will walk in his paths : 
For from Zion shall go forth the law ; 
And the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. 

4 And he shall judge among the nations, 
And give sentence to many peoples : 

And they shall beat their swords into plough- 
shares, 

And their spears into pruning-hooks : 
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation; 
Neither shall they learn war any more. 

5 O house of Jacob, come ye, 

And let us walk in the light of Jehovah! 

6 For thou hast abandoned thy people, the house 

of Jacob, 
Because they are full of the East, 
And soothsayers like the Philistines; 
And with a foreign race they go hand in hand. 

7 Their land is full of silver and gold ; 
And there is no end to their treasures : 
Their land is full of horses ; 

And there is no end to their chariots. 

8 Their land is full of idols ; 

Before the work of their own hands do they 

prostrate themselves ; 
Before that which their own fingers have made. 



CHAP. II* 



ISAIAH. 



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9 Therefore the mean man is bowed down, and 
the great man is humbled ; 
And thou wilt not forgive them. 

10 Go into the rock, and hide thyself in the dust; 
For fear of Jehovah, and for the glory of his 

majesty. 

11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, 
And the haughtiness of mortals shall be bowed 

down : 

And Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. 

12 For there is unto Jehovah of hosts, a day 

against every thing proud and lofty; 
And against every thing exalted, that it shall be 
humbled. 

13 Even against all the cedars of Lebanon, the 

high and the exalted; 
And against all the oaks of Basan : 

14 And against all the high mountains. 
And against all the exalted hills : 

15 And against every high raised tower ; 
And against every fenced wall. 

16 And against all the ships of Tarshish ; 
And against every desirable work of art. 

17 And the pride of man shall be bowed down ; 
And the haughtiness of mortals shall be 

humbled ; 

And Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that 
day. 

18 And the idols shall be totally destroyed. 



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19 And they shall go into caverns of rocks, and 

into dens of the earth ; 
For fear of Jehovah, and for the glory of his 
majesty, 

When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 

20 In that day shall men cast away their idols 

of silver, 

And their idols of gold, which they had made 

for themselves to worship; 
To the moles and to the bats : 

21 To go into caves of rocks, and into clefts of 

craggy rocks : 
For fear of Jehovah, and for the glory of his 
majesty, 

When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 

22 Cease ye from trust in man, whose breath is 

in his nostrils ; 
For wherein is he of any account ? 

CHAP. III. 

1 For behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, 
Removeth from Jerusalem, and from Judah, 
Every stay and support; 

The whole stay of bread, and the whole stay 
of water : 

2 The mighty man, and the warrior; 

The judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, 
and the elder : 

3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man ; 



chap. in. ISAIAH. 



And the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, 
and the skilful of speech. 

4 And I will set boys for their princes ; 
And children shall rule over them. 

5 And the people shall be oppressed ; 

This man by that man, and that man by his 
neighbour: 

They shall behave themselves insolently, the 

boy towards the old man ; 
And the base towards the honourable. 

6 Then should a man lay hold on his brother, of 

the house of his father, 
[Saying] thou hast raiment; be thou ruler over us, 
And take this ruin under thy hand : 

7 He shall swear in that day, saying, 
I cannot be the healer ; 

For in my house is neither bread, nor raiment: 
Appoint not me ruler of the people. 

8 For Jerusalem tottereth, and Judah falleth ; 
Because their tongue, and their deeds, are 

against Jehovah ; 
To provoke his glorious eyes. 

9 The shamelessness of their countenances wit- 

nesseth against them; 
And they speak openly of their sin, like Sodom 

they hide it not : 
Wo unto their soul ! for they have rewarded 

evil unto themselves. 
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well 

[with him] ; 

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ISAIAH. CHAP. I1L 



For the fruit of his deeds shall he eat. 

11 Wo unto the wicked; it shall be ill [with 

him] ; 

For the reward of his hands shall be given him. 

12 As for my people, children are their oppressors; 
And women rule over them. 

O my people, thy leaders cause thee to err ; 
And the way of thy paths, they pervert 

13 Jehovah ariseth to plead his cause; 
He standeth to judge the people. 

14 Jehovah will enter into judgment, 

With the elders of his people and their princes * 
For ye have consumed the vineyard : 
The plunder of the poor is in your houses. 

15 What mean ye, that ye crush my people ; 
And grind the faces of the poor? 

Saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts a 

1G Moreover Jehovah hath said : 

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty; 
And walk displaying the neck, 
And leering with their eyes, 
Walking and mincing as they go, 
And making a tinkling with their feet. 

17 Therefore will the Lord smite with a scab the 

head of the daughters of Zion; 
Ariel Jehovah will expose their nakedness. 

18 In that day will the Lord take away the orna- 

ments, 



CHAP. IV. 



ISAIAH. 



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Of -the ancle-rings, and the caps of network, 
and the crescents ; 

19 The pendents, and the bracelets, and the thin 

veils ; 

20 The head-dress, and the anklets, and the girdles. 
And the perfume-boxes, and the amulets : 

21 The rings, and the jewels of the nose ; 

22 The embroidered robes, and the tunics ; 
And the cloaks, and the sachels ; 

23 The transparent garments, and the fine linen 

vests ; 

And the turbans, and the mantles. 

24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of per- 

fume there shall be putrefaction, 
And instead of a girdle, an ulcer; 
And instead of plaited hair, baldness; 
And instead of a zone, a girdle of sackloth : 
A sunburnt skin, instead of beauty. 

25 Thy men shall fall by the sword ; 
And thy mighty, in the war, 

26 And her gates shall lament and mourn ; 
And desolate shall she sit on the ground, 

CHAP. IV. 

1 And seven women shall lay hold on one man 
in that day, saying : 
Our own bread will we eat, and wear our own 
apparel ; 

Only let us be called by thy name : 
Do thou take away our reproach.. 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAtf. V. 



2 In that day shall the Branch of Jehovah 
Become glorious and honourable; 

And the fruit of the land excellent and beautiful, 
For the remnant saved of Israel. 

3 And it shall come to pass, whosoever is left 

in Zion, 
And remaineth in Jerusalem, 
Holy shall he be called ; 

Every one that is written among the living 
in Jerusalem. 

4 When the Lord shall have washed away the 

filth of the daughters of Zion ; 

And shall have wiped off the blood of Jerusa- 
lem from the midst of her, 

By a spirit of judgment, and by a spirit of 
burning : 

5 Then shall Jehovah create upon every dwell- 

ing-place in mount Zion, 
And upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke 
by day ; 

And the brightness of a flaming fire by night: 
But upon all the glory there shall be a covering. 

6 And a tabernacle it shall be for a shade by day 

from the heat ; 
And for a refuge, and for a covert, from storm 
and from rain. 

CHAP. V. 
1 Let me sing now to my Beloved, 

A song of my Beloved touching his vineyard. 



chap v. ISAIAH. 



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My Beloved had a vineyard 
Upon a very fruitful hill. 

2 He digged it, and cleared it of stones, 
And planted it with the choicest vine, 
And he built a tower in the midst of it, 
And also digged a winepress therein ; 

And he expected, that it should bring forth 
grapes ; 

But it brought forth baneful berries. 

3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye 

men of Judah, 
Judge, 1 pray you, between me and my vineyard, 

4 Whateould have been done moretomy vineyard. 
Than I have done unto it ? 

Why, when I expected that it should bring 

forth grapes, 
Brought it forth baneful berries ? 

5 But come now, and I will make known unto 

you, 

What I will do to my vineyard : 
I will remove its hedge, and it shall be eaten 
up ; 

I will demolish its wall, and it shall be trodden 
down. 

6 And I will make it a waste : 

It shall not be pruned, neither shall it be 
weeded ; 

But there shall come up brier and thorn; 
And to the clouds I will give command. 
That they rain no rain upon it. 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. V e 



7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the 

house of Israel; 
And the men of Judah his pleasant plant : 
He looked for judgment, and behold a shedding 

of blood ; 
For justice, and behold a cry. 

8 Wo unto them, who join house to house; 
Who lay field unto field together ; 

Until there be no more room left, and ye dwell 
By yourselves alone in the midst of the land. 

9 To mine ears hath Jehovah of hosts revealed it: 
Surely, the many houses shall become a deso- 
lation ; 

The great and the fair ones, no one shall inhabit, 

10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one 

bath, 

And a chomer of seed shall produce an ephah. 

11 Wo unto them, who rise early in the morning to 

follow after strong drink ; 
Who sit late in the evening, that the wine may 
inflame them : 

12 And the lyre, and the harp, the tabor, and the 

pipe, 

And wine, are their entertainments ; 
But the work of Jehovah they regard not ; 
And the operation of his hands they do not 
perceive. 

13 Therefore my people goeth into captivity, for 

want of knowledge ; 



CHAP. V. 



ISAIAH. 



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Their nobles have died with hunger; 

And their multitude are parched up with thirst. 

14 Therefore hath Hades opened its jaws with 

greediness; 

And hath stretched open its mouth without 
measure : 

And down go her nobility, and her multitude ; 
And her busy throng, and all that exult in her, 

15 And the mean man is bowed down, and the 

great man is humbled; 
And the eyes of the haughty are humbled. 
T6 But Jehovah of hosts is exalted in judgment; 
And the Holy God is sanctified in righteousness. 

17 The sheep shall feed, as upon their own 

pasture ; 

And in the desolate possessions of the rich 
shall strange flocks graze. 

18 Wo unto them, who draw punishment along with 

a rope of vice ; 
And destruction, as with a cart-rope. 

19 Who say, Let him make speed, let him hasten 

his work, that we may see it ; 
And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel 
draw near and come to pass, that we may 
know it 

20 Wo unto them that call evil good, and good 

evil ; 

Who put darkness for light, and light for 
darkness ; 

Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. V 



21 Wo unto them, who are wise in their own eyes 
And prudent in their own conceit. 

22 Wo unto them, that are powerful to drink wine ; 
And men of might to mingle strong drink. 

23 Who justify the guilty for reward, 

And take away the righteousness of the righ- 
teous from him. 

24 Therefore as the flame of fire devoureth the 

stubble, 

And as the dry grass sinketh down together in 

the flame ; 
So their root shall be as rottenness, 
And their blossom shall go up like the dust : 
Because they have despised the law of Jehovah 

of hosts; 

And scornfully rejected the word of the Holy 
One of Israel. 

25 Wherefore the anger of Jehovah is kindled 

against his people ; 
He hath stretched out his hand against them, 
And smitten them ; and the mountains trem- 
bled ; 

And their carcases became as the mire in the 

midst of the streets. 
For all this his anger is not turned away ; 
But his hand is still stretched out. 

26 And he will erect a standard for the nations 

afar off ; 

And he will hiss unto them from the end of the 
earth ; 



CHAP. VI. 



ISAIAH. 



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And behold, with speed swiftly shall they come. 

27 None among them is faint, and none stumbleth; 
No one slumbereth, and no one sleepeth : 
Neither is the girdle of their loins loosed; 
Nor the latchet of their shoes torn off. 

28 Whose arrows are sharpened, 
And all their bows are bent: 

The hoofs of their horses are counted like unto 
the flint; 

And their wheels unto the whirlwind. 

29 Their roaring is like that of the lioness ; 
They roar like the young lions : 

They rage, and seize the prey ; 

They bear it away, and no one doth rescue. 

30 In that day, shall they roar against them, like 

the roaring of the sea; 
And they shall look towards the earth, and 

behold ! darkness ; 
Anguish their only light! 
It darkeneth in the heavens above. 

CHAP. VI. 

1 In the year, in which XJzziah the king died, 
I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high 
and lofty; and his train filled the temple. 

2 Above him stood the Seraphim : each one 
of them had six wings: with two he covered 
his face, and with two he covered his feet, and 

3 with two he did fly. And one called to the 
other, and said : 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. VI. 



Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of hosts ! 
The whole earth is full of his glory. 

4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook 
at the voice of the calling; and the house 

5 was filled with smoke. Then I said, Wo 
is me! I am undone: for I am a man of 
unclean lips; and in the midst of a people 
of unclean lips do I dwell : for mine eyes 
have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. 

6 Then flew one of the Seraphim towards 
me; and in his hand was a burning coal, 
which he had taken with the tongs from off 

7 the altar. And he touched my mouth, and 
said : 

Lo! this hath touched thy lips : 
Thine iniquity is removed, and thy sin is ex- 
piated. 

8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, say- 
ing : "Whom shall I send ; and who will go 
for us ? And I said : Behold, here am I, send 

9 me. And he said : 

Go, and say thou to this people: 
Hear ye distinctly, but ye shall not under- 
stand ; 

See ye clearly, but ye shall not perceive; 
10 Make gross the heart of this people ; 

Make their ears dull, and close up their 

eyes ; 

Lest they should see with their eyes, and hear 

with their ears, 



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And understand with their hearts, and be con- 
verted, and be healed. 

11 And I said; How long, Lord? And he said: 
Until cities be laid waste, so that there be no 

inhabitant; 
And houses, so that there be no man : 
And the land be left utterly desolate. 

12 Then Jehovah will remove men far away: 
And the desolation shall be increased in the land, 

13 But should there still be left in it a tenth part, 
It would likewise be exterminated ; 

[Yet], as the turpentine tree, and the oak, when 
they are cut down, have their stem remain- 
ing ; 

So also a holy seed, as a stem of the people., 
shall remain. 



CHAP. VII. 

1 It came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the 
son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of 
Judah, that Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah, 
the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came 
up against Jerusalem, to besiege it; but they 
could not overcome it. 

2 And when it was told to the house of 
David, that Syria was supported by Ephraim ; 
then his heart, and the heart of his people, 
was moved; as the trees of the forest are 
moved before the wind 



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3 And Jehovah said to Isaiah: Go out now 
to meet Ahaz; thou and Shearjeshub thy son ; 
at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, at 

4 the causeway of the fuller's field. And thou 
shalt say unto him : 

Take heed, and be still : fear not, neither let 
thy heart be faint ; 

Because of these two ends of smoking fire- 
brands ; 

For the fierce wrath of Rezin, and Syria, and 
the son of Remaliah. 

5 Because Syriahathplotted mischief against thee : 
Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, saying: 

6 Let us go up against Judah, and besiege it; 
And let us divide it among ourselves: 
And let us set up a king in the midst of it; 
Even the son of Tabeal. 

7 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah : 

It shall not stand, neither shall it be. 

8 Though the head of Syria be Damascus, 
And the head of Damascus, Rezin; 
Yet within threescore and five years, 
Ephraim shall be broken, that he be no more a 

people : 

9 Though the head of Ephraim be Samaria ; 
And the head of Samaria, Remaliah's son : 

If ye believe not in me, surely ye shall not be 
established. 

10 And Jehovah spake yet again to Ahaz, saying: 
1 J Ask thee a sign from Jehovah thy God : 



CHAP. VII. 



ISAIAH. 



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Ask it in the deep, or seek it in the height. 

12 And Ahaz said ; I will not ask ; neither will I 

tempt Jehovah. And he said : 

13 Hear ye now, O house of David : 

Is it a small thing for you to weary the patience 
of men, 

That you should weary my God also ? 

14 Therefore the Lordhimself shall give you a sign: 
Behold, the Virgin shall conceive, and bear 

a son: 

And she shall call his name Immanuel. 

15 Butter and honey shall he eat, 

Till he shall have knowledge to reject what is 
evil, and to choose what is good : 

16 For before the child shall have knowledge 
To reject the evil, and to choose the good ; 
The land, which causeth uneasiness to thee 
By reason of its two kings, shall be deserted. 

17 [But] Jehovah shall bring upon thee, 

And upon thy people, and upon thy father's 
house, 

Days, such as have not come, 
From the day that Ephraim departed from 
Judah ; 

[Xamely] the king of Assyria. 

18 And it shall come to pass in that day ; 
Jehovah shall hiss for the fly, 

That is in the utmost part of the rivers of Egypt ; 
And for the bee, that is in the land of Assyria : 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. VII. 



19 And they shall come, and they shall light all of 

them, 

On the valleys of the deserts, and on the clefts 

of the rocks, 
And on all the thorn bushes, and on all the 

meadows. 

20 In that day shall the Lord shave with a razor 

hired 

Beyond the river, [namely] with the king of 

Assvria, 

The head, and the hair of the feet ; 
And the beard also it shall take away. 

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, 

That a man shall keep one cow and two 
sheep ; 

22 And it shall be, 

From the plenty of milk which they shall pro- 
duce, he shall eat butter : 
Yea, butter and honey shall he eat, 
Whosoever is left in the land. 

23 And it shall come to pass in that day, 

That every place wherein there were a thousand 
vines, 

At a thousand pieces of silver, 

Shall become the portion of briers and thorns. 

24 With arrows and with the bow shall they come 

thither; 

For the whole land shall become briers and 
thorns. 



CHAP. VIII. 



ISAIAH. 



23 



25 And upon all the hills, which were dressed with 

the mattock, 
Will no one go, for fear of briers and thorns; 
But they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, 

and for the treading of sheep, 

CHAP. VIII. 

1 And Jehovah said unto me : Take unto 
thee a large roll, and write upon it in the style 
of man, Hasten the spoil, take quickly 

2 the prey. And I took unto me faithful wit- 
nesses ; Uriah the priest, and Zachariah the 

3 son of Jerebechiah. And I approached unto 
the prophetess ; and she conceived and bare 
a son. And Jehovah said unto me: Gall his 
name Maher-shalal hash-baz : 

4 For before the child shall have knowledge 
To cry, My father, and My mother, 

The riches of Damascus shall be taken away, 
And the spoil of Samaria, before the face of 
the king of Assyria. 

5 Yet again Jehovah spake unto me, saying ; 

6 Because this people hath rejected 

The waters of Shiloah, which flow gently; 
And rejoiceth in Rezin, and the son of 
Remaliah: 

7 Now, therefore, behold the Lord bringeth up 

upon them 

The waters of the river, strong and mighty; 



ISAIAH. chap. viii. 



Even the king of Assyria, and all his glory. 
And he shall rise above all their channels, 
And go over all their banks. 

8 And he shall pass through Judah, he shall 

overflow and go over ; 
Even to the neck shall he reach : 
And the spreading of his wings shall be 
Over the full breadth of thy land, O Immanuel ! 

9 Link yourselves together, O ye people, yet 

shall you be broken in pieces ; 
And give ear, all ye distant lands : 
Gird ye yourselves, yet shall you be broken in 

pieces ; 

Gird ye yourselves, yet shall you be broken in 
pieces. 

10 Take counsel together, yet it shall be brought 

to nought; 
Speak the word ; but it shall not stand : 
For God is with us. 

11 For thus said Jehovah unto me, with a strong 

hand ; 

When he warned me against walking in the 
way of this people, saying : 

12 Call ye not that a confederacy, 
Whatsoever this people shall call a confe- 
deracy : 

And be ye not afraid of their fear, neither be 
ye terrified. 

13 Jehovah of hosts, Him sanctify ; 



chap. viii. ISAIAH. 



25 



And let him be your fear, and let him be your 
terror. 

14 And he shall be [unto you] for a sanctuary : 
But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of 

offence, 
To both the houses of Israel ; 
For a trap, and for a snare to the inhabitants 

of Jerusalem. 

15 And, against which, many shall stumble, 
And shall fall, and be broken; and shall be 

insnared, and caught. 

16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law, among 

my disciples. 

17 And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth 

his face 

From the house of Jacob; and I will lookforhim. 

18 Behold, I, and the children, 

Whom Jehovah hath given unto me ; 
For signs and tor wonders in Israel, 
From Jehovah of hosts, 
Who dwelleth upon mount Zion. 

19 And when they shall say unto yoa : 
Inquire of the necromancers and the wizards, 
Who chirp, and mutter : 

[Say ye], Should not a people inquire of their 
God? 

[Should they inquire] of the dead concerning 
the living? 

20 To the law and to the testimony ; 

If they will not speak according to this word, 
c 



26 ISAIAH. chap, ix, 

It is because there is no dawn of day for them. 

21 And they shall pass through the land sorely 

beset and hungry : 
And it shall come to pass when they shall 

hunger and fret themselves, 
They will curse their king, and their God, 

22 Whether they shall cast their eyes upward, 
Or shall look unto the earth ; for, behold, 

trouble and obscurity, 
Palpable darkness, and a thick night whereinto 
they shall be driven. 

23 But hereafter there shall not be darkness to 

that [land] wherein is now distress : 
In the former time he made no account of 
The land of Zabulon and the land of Naphtali; 
But in the latter time he hath exalted 
The Galilee of the nations, beyond Jordan, by 

the way of the sea. 

CHAP. IX. 

1 The people, that walked in darkness, 
Have seen a great light ; 

They that dwelled in the land of the shadow of 
death, 

Upon them hath the light shined. 

2 Thou hast multiplied the nation, 
Thou hast increased their joy : 

They joy before thee, as with the joy of harvest; 
As they rejoice, who divide the spoil. 



chap. ix. ISAIAH. 



27 



3 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his 

shoulder, 

The rod of his oppressor, hast thou broken, as 
in the day of Midian. 

4 For every greave of the warrior accoutred for 

battle, 

And the garment rolled in blood, 
Shall be for burning, as fuel for the fire. 

5 For unto us a child is born ; unto us a son is 

given ; 

And the government shall be upon his shoulder : 
And his name shall be called Wonderful, 
Counsellor, 

Mighty God, Father of eternity, Prince of 
peace. 

0 Of the increase of his government and peace 
there shall be no end, 
Upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom ; 
To fix it, and to establish it; 
With judgment and with justice, henceforth and 
for ever : 

The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will do this. 

7 The Lord hath sent a word to Jacob ; 
And it hath lighted upon Israel : 

8 And all this people shall know, 

[Even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria; 
Who in pride and arrogancy of heart do say : 
0 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build 
with hewn stone ; 

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28 



ISAIAH. chap, ix 



The sycamores are cut down, but we will sub- 
stitute cedars. 

10 Therefore shall Jehovah set up the adversaries 

of Reziu against him, 
And shall arm his enemies ; 

11 Syriafrom before, and the Philistines frombehind; 
And they shall devour Israel with open mouth. 

For all this his anger is not turned away ; 
But his hand is still stretched out. 

12 For this people have not turned unto him who 

smote them ; 
And Jehovah of hosts have they not sought. 

13 Therefore shall Jehovah cut off from Israel 

head and tail ; 
Branch and rush in one day : 

14 The aged and honourable, they are the head ; 
And the prophet that teacheth falsehood, he is 

the tail. 

15 For the leaders of this people lead them astray; 
And they that are led by them shall be devoured , 

16 Wherefore the Lord shall not rejoice over their 

young men, 

And on their orphans, and their widows, he 

shall have no compassion. 
For every one of them is a hypocrite and an 

evil-doer ; 
And every mouth speaketh folly. 

For all this his anger is not turned away ; 

But his hand is still stretched out. 



CHAP, X» 



ISAIAH. 



29 



17 For wickedness burneth like a fire ; 
Brier and thorn it shall consume : 

And it setteth on fire the thickets of the forest; 
And they shall mount up in volumes of rising- 
smoke. 

18 Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the 

land darkened ; 
And the people are as fuel of fire ; 
No man spareth his brother : 

19 For he snatcheth on the right hand, yet is he 

hungry ; 

And devoureth on the left, yet is he not satisfied ; 
Each man devoureth the flesh of his own arm: 

20 Manasseh Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; 
And they both are united together against Judah. 

For all this his anger is not turned away ; 
But his hand is still stretched out. 

CHAP. X. 

1 Wo unto them, that decree unrighteous decrees; 
And to the writers, that write grievousness : 

2 To turn aside the needy from judgment; 

And to rob of their right the poor of my people; 
That widows may become their prey ; 
And that they may plunder the orphans. 

3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, 
Andin the desolation, which shall comefrom afar? 
To whom will ye flee for succour? 

And where will ye deposit your glory ? 

4 But they shall bowdown inthe place of prisoners, 



30 ISAIAH, chap, x 



Or in the place of the slain they shall fall. 
For all this his anger is not turned away : 
But his hand is still stretched out. 

5 Wo unto the Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, 
And the staff which is in their hand is mine 

indignation. 

6 Against an ungodly nation will I send him ; 
And against people of my wrath will I com- 
mission him, 

To gather spoil, and carry off prey ; 
And to trample them under foot like the mire 
of the streets. 

7 But He doth not so purpose ; 
And his heart doth not so intend : 
But to destroy is in his heart ; 
And to cut off nations not a few. 

8 For h e s ait h , Are n o t m y prin c e s al to ge th er k i n gs ? 

9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? 
Is not Ham a tli as Arpad ? 

Is not Samaria as Damascus ? 

10 As my hand hath seized the kingdoms of the idols. 
Whose graven images did excel those of Je- 
rusalem and Samaria; 

11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and 

her idols, 

Do also unto Jerusalem, and her images ? 

12 But it shall be, when the Lord hath performed 

his whole work, 
Upon mount Zion> and upon Jerusalem : 



chap. x. 



ISAIAH. 



31 



I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the 

king of Assyria ; 
And the glory of his high looks. 

13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand have 

I done it ; 

And by my wisdom ; for I am instructed in 
wisdom. 

And I have removed the boundaries of peoples, 
And I have plundered their hoarded treasures ; 
And I have overthrown the inhabitants, like a 
valiant man. 

14 And my hand hath found as a nest, the riches 

of the nations : 
And as one gathereth eggs that are left, 
Have I gathered the whole earth; 
And there was no one that moved the wing ; 
Or that opened the beak, or that chirped. 

15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that 

heweth therewith ? 
Shall the saw magnify itself against him that 
moveth it ? 

As if the rod should wield him, that liftethit up; 
As if the staff should lift up its master. 

16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send 
Upon his fat ones leanness. 

And under his glory shall he kindle a flame, 
Like the flame of fire. 

17 And the light of Israel shall become a fire, 
And his Holy One a flame ; 

And he shall burn and consume his thorn, 



ISAIAH. chap. 



And his brier in one day. 

18 Even the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful 

field, 

From the soul even unto the flesh, shall he 
consume ; 

And it shall be as when a sick person fainteth. 

19 And the remainder of the trees of his forest 

shall be few, 
So that a child may count them. 

20 And it shall come to pass in that day, 
No more shall the remnant of Israel, 

And such as are escaped of the house of Jacobs 
Stay upon him that smote them : 
But shall stay upon Jehovah, 
The Holy One of Israel, in truth. 

21 A remnant shall return, a remnant of Jacob, 
Unto the mighty God. 

22 For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand 

of the sea, 
A remnant, of them only shall return. 
Destruction hath been decreed, 
Overflowing with justice ; 

23 For a devastation, even the judgment decreed, 
Shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, accomplish 
In the midst of the whole land. 

24 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of 

hosts : 

Fear not, O my people that dwellest in Zion, 
because of the Assyrian : 



CHAP. X. 



ISAIAH. 



33 



With his rod he shall smite thee, 
And his staff he shall lift up against thee, after 
the manner of Egypt. 

25 For yet a very little while, and indignation shall 

cease ; 

And mine anger [be turned] towards their de- 
struction. 

26 And Jehovah of hosts, shall stir up a scourge 

for him, 

Like the smiting of Midian at the rock of Greb, 

And like his rod over the sea ; 

Yea he will lift it up, after the manner of Egypt. 

27 And it shall come to pass in that day, 

His burden shall be removed from off thy 

shoulder, 
And his yoke from off thy neck : 
And the yoke shall be destroyed on account of 
fatness. 

28 He is come to Aiath; he hath passed through 

Migroo ; 

At Michmas he hath laid up his baggage. 

29 They are gone over the passage; at Gebatbey 

have taken up their lodging: 
Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul hath fled. 

30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim ! 
Listen in the direction of Laish, O afflicted 

Anathoth ! 

31 Madmena is gone away ; the inhabitants of 

Gebim have fled. 

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ISAIAH. chap, xi 



32 Yet this day will he abide in Nob : 

He shall shake his hand against the mount of 

the daughter of Zion, 
The hill of Jerusalem. 

33 Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, 
Shall lop the bough with a dreadful crash; 
And the high of stature shall be cut down, 
And the lofty shall be brought low : 

34 And he shall hew the thickets of the forest with 

iron, 

And Lebanon shall fall by a mighty hand. 

CHAP. XT. 

1 But there shall come forth a rod from the 

stem of Jesse ; 
And a shoot from his root shall produce fruit. 

2 And the spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him ; 
The spirit of wisdom, and understanding ; 
The spirit of counsel, and might ; 

The spirit of knowledge, and the fear of 
Jehovah. 

: And his delight shall be in thefear of Jehovah. 
So that according to the sight of his eyes shall 

he not judge ; 
Neither give sentence according to the hearing 

of his ears ; 

4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, 
And with equity shall he give sentence to the 
meek of the earth. 



CHAP. XI. 



ISAIAH. 



35 



And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his 
mouth, 

And with the breath of his lips he shall slay 
the wicked. 

5 And righteousness shall be the girdleof hisloins, 

And faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 
8 Then shall the wolf take up his abode with 
the lamb ; 

And the leopard shall lie down with the kid : 
And the calf, and the young lion, and the fat- 
ling shall be together ; 
And a little child shall lead them. 

7 And the heifer and the bear shall feed together; 
Together shall their young ones lie down; 
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 

8 And the sucking child shall play at the hole of 

the asp ; 

And upon the den of thebasilisk shall thenewly- 
weaned child lay his hand. 

9 They shall not hurt, nor destroy in all my holy 

mountain ; 

For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of 

Jehovah, 
As the waters cover the sea. 

10 And it shall come to pass in that day, 

The root of Jesse, which shall stand for an 

ensign to the peoples, 
Unto him shall the Gentiles repair, 
And his place of rest shall be glorious. 

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XI* 



The Lord shall again the second time put forth 
his hand, 

To recover the remnant of his people, 
That remaineth, from Assyria, and from Egypt ; 
And from Pathros, and from Ethiopia, and from 
Elam ; 

And from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from 
the Islands of the sea. 

12 And he shall lift up an ensign to the nations ; 
And he shall gather the outcasts of Israel, 
And the dispersed of Judah shall he collect, 
From the four extremities of the earth. 

13 And the jealousy of Ephraim shall depart ; 
And the adversaries in Judah shall be cut off ; 
Ephraim shall not he jealous of Judah ; 
Neither shall Judah be at enmity with Ephraim. 

14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the 

Philistines westward : 
Together shall they spoil the children of the 
East: 

On Edom and Moab they shall lay their hand; 
And the sons of Ammon shall obey them. 

15 And Jehovah shall devote to destruction the 

tongue of the sea of Egypt; 
And he shall shake his hand over the river with 

his vehement wind ; 
And he shall strike it into seven streams, 
So that one may pass over it dry-shod. 
1(3 And there shall be a high-way for the remnant 

of his people, 



CHAP. XII. 



ISAIAH. 



37 



Which shall remain from Assyria ; 
As there was unto Israel, 

In the day when he came up from the land of 

Egypt- 

CHAP. XII. 

1 And in that day thou shalt say ; 

I will praise thee, O Jehovah ; for though 
thou hast been angry with me, 

Thine anger is turned away, and thou hast com- 
forted me. 

2 Behold, God is my salvation ; 

I will trust, and will not be afraid : 

For my strength, and my song, is the Lord 

Jehovah ; 
And he is become my salvation. 

3 And ye shall draw waters with joy 
From the fountains of salvation. 

4 And ye shall say in that day : 
Praise Jehovah ; call upon his name ; 
Make known amongthe peoples hismighty deeds: 

5 Sing ye unto Jehovah; for he hath wrought 

a stupendous work : 
This is known in all the earth. 

6 Cry aloud, and shout for joy, O inhabitress of 

Zion ! 

For great in the midst of thee is the Holy One 
of Israel. 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XIII, 



CHAP. XIII. 

THE ORACLE CONCERNING BABYLON, WHICH 
WAS REVEALED TO ISAIAH, THE SON OF 
AMOZ. 

2 Upon a lofty mountain erect the standard; 
Exalt the voice unto them ; beckon with the 

hand ; 

That they may enter the gates of princes. 

3 To my appointed ones I have given command; 
I have also called my strong ones to execute 

my wrath ; 
My proudly exulting ones. 

4 Hark! a sound of a multitude in the moun- 

tains, as of a great people ; 
A sound of the tumult of kingdoms, of nations 

gathered together ! 
Jehovah of hosts mustereth the armies for the 

battle. 

5 They come from a far country, from the end of 

the heavens ; 
Jehovah, and the instruments of his wrath, to 
destroy the whole land. 

6 Howl ye, for the day of Jehovah is at hand : 
As a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 

7 Therefore shall all hands be slackened, 
And every heart of mortal shall melt ; 

8 And they shall be terrified : pangs and sorrows 
shall take hold of them ; 



chap. xiii. ISAIAH. 



39 



As a woman in travail shall they be in pain : 
They shall look one upon another with asto- 
nishment ; 
Faces of flames shall be their faces, 
9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, 
And full of fury and burning anger; 
To make the earth a desolation; 
And her sinners he shall destroy from out of her. 

10 For the stars of heaven, and the constellations 

thereof, 

Shall not send forth their light : 

The sun is darkened at his going forth, 

And the moon shall not cause her light to shine, 

11 And I will punish the world for its evil, 
And the wicked for their iniquity : 

And I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to 
cease ; 

And I will lay low the haughtiness of tyrants. 

12 I will make a mortal more precious than gold; 
Yea a man, than the gold of Ophir. 

18 Wherefore I will make the heavens tremble, 
And the earth shall be shaken out of her place ; 
During the indignation of Jehovah of hosts; 
And in the day of his burning anger. 
14 Then shall every one be, as a roe chased : 

And as sheep, when there is no one to gather 

them together ; 
They shall look, each man towards his own 
people ; 

And they shall flee, every one to his own land. 



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ISAIAH. chap. xin. 



15 Every one, that is overtaken, shall be thrust 

through ; 

And all that are rallied together shall fall by the 

sword. 

16 And their infants shall be dashed in pieces be- 

fore their eyes ; 
Their houses shall be plundered, and their wives 

ravished. 

17 Behold, I stir up against them the Medes ; 
Who shall hold silver of no account; 

And as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 

18 Their bows shall dash the young men; 

And on the fruit of the womb they shall have 
no mercy : 

Their eye shall have no pity even on the children . 

19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, 
The glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, 
Shall be as Sodom and Gomorrah, which God 

overthrew. 

20 It shall not be inhabited for ever ; 

Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to 
generation : 

Neither shall the Arabian pitch his tent there ; 
Neither shall the shepherds make their flocks 
to rest there. 

21 But there shali the wild beasts of the deserts 

couch them down ; 
And yelling creatures shall fill their houses; 
And there shall the daughters of the ostrich 

dwell ; 



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41 



And there shall the satyrs lead their dances. 
22 And wolves shall howl to one another in their 
palaces ; 

And jackals in their temples of pleasure. 

And her time is near to come; 

And her days shall not be prolonged. 

CHAP. XIV. 

1 For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, 
And will yet choose Israel. 

And he will settle them in their own land, 
And the stranger shall be joined unto them, 
And they shall cleave unto the house of Jacob. 

2 And the nations shall take them, and bring them 

into their own place ; 

And the house of Israel shall possess them in 
the land of Jehovah, 

As servants, and as handmaids : 

And they shall take them captives, whose cap- 
tives they were ; 

And they shall rule over their oppressors. 

3 And it shall come to pass in that day, when 
Jehovah shall give thee rest from thine afflic- 
tion, and from thy disquiet, and from the hard 

4 labour which was imposed upon thee ; that 
thou shalt take up this parable against the king 
of Babylon ; and shalt say : 

How hath the oppressor ceased ! 
She that exacted gold ceased ! 



42 



ISAIAH. chap. xiv. 



5 Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, 
The rod of the tyrants. 

6 He that smote the people in wrath, 
A smiting without intermission; 
He that ruled the nations in anger, 
An oppression without restraint. 

7 The whole earth is at rest, is quiet ; 
They have burst forth into a joyful shout: 

8 Even the fir-trees rejoice over thee, 
And the cedars of Lebanon : 
Since thou art laid down, 

-No feller hath come up against us. 

9 Hades from beneath is moved because of 

thee, 

To meet thy coming : 

It stirreth up for thee the shades of all the chiefs 

of the earth ; 
It make th to rise from their thrones, all the kings 

of the nations. 

10 All these shall speak, and say unto thee: 
Art thou also become weak as we ? 
Art thou become like unto us ? 

11 Thy pomp is brought down to Hades, 
The sounding of thy viols : 

Under thee is spread the worm, 
And thy covering the maggot. 

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, 
O Lucifer, son of the morning ! 
Cut down to the earth, 

Thou that didst triumph over the nations ! 



CHAP. XIV. 



ISAIAH. 



43 



13 Yet thou didst say in thy heart, I will ascend 

the heavens ; 
Above the stars of God I will exalt my throne; 
And I will sit upon the mount of the assembly, 

in the farthest regions of the North : 

14 I will ascend above the heights of the cloud ; 
I will be like the Most High. 

15 Nay, but thoushaltbebroughtdown to the grave, 
To the lowest depths of the pit. 

16 Those that see thee shall look attentively at 

thee ; 

They shall meditate upon thee : 

Is this the man that made the earth to tremble? 

That shook the kingdoms ? 

17 That made the world like a wilderness, 
And destroyed the cities thereof? 

That loosed not his prisoners homeward ? 

18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, 

Lie down in splendour, each in his own sepulchre : 

19 But thou art cast away deprived of thy grave, 
Asa branch that is cast away ; 

Covered with the slain, pierced by the sword, 
Who shall soon go down to the stones of the pit, 
As a carcase trodden under foot, 

20 Thou shalt not be joined unto them in burial ; 
Because thou hast destroyed thy country, hast 

slain thy people : 
The seed of evil doers shall not be named for 
ever. 

21 Prepare slaughter for his children, 



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ISAIAH. CHAP. XIV 



For the iniquity of their fathers ; 
Lest they rise, and possess the earth, 
And disturbers fill the face of the world. 

22 For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah 

of hosts, 

I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant; 
And son and grandson, saith Jehovah. 

23 And I will make it a place of inheritance for 

the porcupine, and pools of water; 
And I will sweep it with the besom of destruc- 
tion, saith Jehovah of hosts. 

24 Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying, 
Surely as I have devised, so shall it be; 
And as I have purposed, it shall stand : 

25 To crush the Assyrian in my land, 

And upon my mountains will I trample him : 
Then shall his yoke depart from oft them, 
And his burden shall be removed from off their 
shoulder. 

26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the 

whole earth ; 
And this is the hand, which is stretched out 
over all the nations. 

27 For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who 

shall disannul it? 
And as to his hand, that is stretched out, who 
shall turn it back ? 



28 IN THE YEAR, IN WHICH AHAZ THE KING 
DIED, THIS ORACLE WAS DELIVERED. 



CHAP. XV. 



ISAIAH. 



45 



29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, through thy extent, 
Because the rod, that smote thee, is broken : 
For from the root of the serpent shall come forth 

a basilisk ; 
And his fruit shall be a flying serpent. 

30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, 
And the needy shall lie down in safety : 
But I will kill thy root with famine, 
And thy remnant shall he slay. 

3 J Howl, O gate ; cry out, O city ! 

O Philistia, thou art altogether agitated ! 
For from the North cometh a smoke ; 
And no one standeth aloof from among his troop. 
32 And what shall one answer the ambassadors of 
the nations ? 
That Jehovah hath founded Zion ; 
And the poor of his people shall take refuge 
in her. 

CHAP. XV. 

THE ORACLE CONCERNING MOAB. 

Surely in a destructive night shall Ar of Moab 
be cut off ; 

Surely in a destructive night shall Kir of Moab 
be cut off. 

2 He goeth up to Baith and Debon, the high 

places, to weep : 
Over Nebo, and over Medeba, shall Moab howl: 
On every head there is baldness; every beard 

is shorn. 



46 



3 In their streets they gird themselves with sack- 

cloth ; 

On their house-tops, and in their main -streets, 
Every one shrieketh, melting into tears. 

4 And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh 5 
Unto Jahaz is their voice heard : 
Therefore do the warriors of Moab wail ; 
Their soul shuddereth within them. 

o My heart crieth out for Moab, 

Her fugitives wander even unto Zoar, 

Unto Eglath-Schalischiia ; 

Yea the ascent of Luhith with weeping shall 

they ascend ; 
Yea in the way of Horonaim shall they raise a 
cry of destruction. 

6 For the waters of Nimrim shall become desolate: 
For the pasture is withered, the tender plant 

faileth, the green herb is no more. 

7 Therefore the remnant which they possess, 
And that which they have laid up ; 

Shall they carry off to the valley of willows. 

8 For the cry is gone round the borders of Moab ; 
Unto Eglaim her lamentation ; 

And to Beer-Elim her lamentation. 

9 Yea the waters of Dimon are full of blood : 
Yet will I bring more evils upon Dimon ; 
Upon the escaped of Moab a lion, 

And upon the remnant of the land. 



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CHAP. XVI. 

1 Send forth the lambs of the ruler of the land, 
From Selah of the desert, 

To the mount of the daughter of Zion. 

2 For it shall be, that as a wandering bird, a nest 

forsaken, 

So shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords 
of Arnon : 

3 Impart counsel; execute justice ; 

Make thy shadow like unto the night, in the 

midst of noon-day : 
Hide the out-casts ; betray not the fugitives. 

4 Let my out-casts, the Moabites, dwell with thee; 
Be thou to them a covert from the destroyer : 
For the oppressor is no more, the destroyer 

ceaseth ; 

He that trampled you under foot is perished 
from the land. 

5 And the throne shall be established in mercy, 
And thereon shall be seated in truth, 

In the tabernacle of David a judge; 
Who will carefully search out the right, 
And promptly execute justice. 

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab ; he is 

very proud ; 
His haughtiness, and his pride, and his anger : 
Vain are his lies. 

7 Therefore shall Moab lament over Moab, 



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Every one shall lament; 

For the fortifications of Kir-haraseth shall ye 

moan ; 

Verily ! ye the deeply afflicted. 

8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, 

The vine of Sibmah, the lords of the nations 
have broken down the fruitful tendrils thereof; 

Unto Jazer did they reach, they wandered over 
the desert. 

Her branches extended themselves, they passed 
over the sea. 

9 Therefore I will weep, with the weeping of 

Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah ; 
I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon 

and Elealeh ! 
For the shouting for thy summer fruits, and for 

thy harvest is fallen. 

10 And joy and gladness is taken away from the 

fruitful field ; 
And in the vineyards there shall be no more 

singing, nor any more shouting : 
Wine in the vats the treader shall no longer tread; 
The shout of joy I have made to cease. 

11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp 

for Moab ; 
And mine inward parts for Kirhares. 

12 And it shall be, when it is seen 

That Moab hath wearied himself out on the 
high place, 

Then shall he enter into his sanctuary to pray; 



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But he shall not prevail. 

13 This is the word, which Jehovah spake 

14 concerning Moab long ago; but now Jehovah 
hath spoken, saying: 

After three years, as the years of an hireling, 

The glory of Moab shall be debased, 

With all his great multitude ; 

And the remnant shall be very small, andfeeble, 

CHAR XVII. 

THE ORACLE CONCERNING DAMASCUS. 

Behold, Damascus is removed from being 
a city ; 

And it shall become a ruinous heap. 

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: 
They shall be for flocks, 

And they shall lie down, and none shall scare 
them away. 

3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, 
And the kingdom from Damascus, and the 

remnant of Syria : 
They shall be as the glory of the children of Israel , 
Saith Jehovah of hosts. 

4 And it shall come to pass in that day, 
The glory of Jacob shall be diminished, 
And the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 

5 And it shall be as when a reaper gathereth the 

standing corn, 
And his arm reapeth the ears of corn ; 
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CHAP. XVII. 



Or as when one gleaneth the ears in the valley 
of Rephaim. 

6 A gleaning only shall be left in it, as in the 

shaking of an olive tree; 

Two or three berries on the top of the upper- 
most bough ; 

Four or five on the fruitful branches thereof: 

Saith Jehovah the God of Israel. 

7 In that day shall a man regard his Maker, 
And toward the Holy One of Israel shall his 

eyes look : 

8 And he shall not regard the altars, the work of 

his hands ; 

And what his fingers have made, he shall not 
respect ; 

Neither the idols, nor the images. 

9 In that day shall his strongly fenced cities 

become 

Like the gleanings of the forest, and the top- 
most branches, 
Which they leave for the children of Israel ; 
And there shall be utter desolation. 

10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy 

salvation, 

And hast not remembered the rock of thy 
strength ; 

Therefore thou shalt plant lovely plantations, 
And engraft foreign shoots upon them ; 

11 In the day shalt thou make thy plants to 

grow, 



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And in the morning shalt thou make thy seed 
to flourish ; 

Harvest in the day of possession flieth away, 
And painful is the disaster. 

12 Ah ! the noise of many people ; 

They make a noise like the noise of the seas : 
And ah ! the rushing of nations ; 
They make a rushing like the rushing of mighty 
waters. 

13 Ah! the rushing of nations; like the rushing 

of mighty waters do they rush : 
But He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee 
far away ; 

And they shall be driven, like the chaff of the 

hills before the wind, 
A nd as the dust before the whirlwind. 

14 At eveningtide, behold terror ! 
Before the morning, and he is no more ! 
This is the portion of those that spoir us ; 
And the lot of those that plunder us. 

CHAP. XVIII. 

1 Ho! thou land that makest a loud noise with 

[thy] wings, 
Which is beyond the rivers of Cush ; 

2 Which sendeth ambassadors along the sea ; 
And in vessels of papyrus on the face of the 

waters : 
Go, ye swift messengers, 

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To a nation strong and violent, 
To a people terrible ; and still farther, 
To a nation very strong and fierce, 
Whose lands the rivers overflow. 

3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers 

on earth, 

When the standardis lifted up on the mountains, 
behold ! 

And when the trumpet is sounded, hear ! 

4 For thus hath Jehovah said unto me : 

I will sit still, and I will look on in my dwell- 
ing-place, 
Like a clear heat in the sun-shine, 
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 

5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect. 
And the flower is become a ripening grape, 
He shall cut offthe branches with pruning hooks, 
And the shoots he shall take away, he shall 

cut down. 

6 They shall be left together unto the rapacious 

bird of the mountains ; 
And to the wild beast of the earth: 
And the rapacious bird shall summer upon them, 
And every wild beast of the earth shall winter 

upon them. 

7 At that time shall a present be brought to 

Jehovah of hosts, 
From a people strong and violent, 
And from a people terrible ; and still farther, 
From a nation very strong and fierce, 



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Whose lands the rivers overflow ; 
To the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, 
the mount Zion. 

CHAP. XIX. 

THE ORACLE CONCERNING EGYPT. 

Behold, Jehovah rideth 
On a swift cloud, and cometh to Egypt! 
And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his 
presence ; 

And the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst 
of her ; 

2 And I will excite Egyptians against Egyptians, 
And they shall fight, every man against his 

brother, and every man against his neighbour: 
City against city, kingdom against kingdom. 

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst 

thereof ; 

And I will swallow up her counsel: 
And they shall seek to the idols, and to the 
sorcerers, 

And to the necromancers, and to the wizards. 

4 And I will deliver up Egypt into the hands of 

a cruel lord, 
And a fierce king shall rule over them : 
Saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts. 

5 Then shall the waters fail from the sea, 
And the river shall be wasted and dried up : 

6 And the rivers shall become putrid, 



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CHAP. XIX. 



The canals of Egypt shall be emptied and 
dried up, 

The reed and the weed shall wither : 

7 The meadows by the river, even at the mouth 

of the river, 
And every thing sown by the river, 
Shall be dried up, scattered away like dust, 

and be no more. 

8 And the fishers shall mourn, and lament; 
All they that cast the angle into the river, 
And they that spread nets on the face of the 

waters shall languish. 

9 And the workers of combed flax shall be 

confounded, 
And they that weave fine silk. 

10 And her foundations are broken in pieces; 
And all workers for hire are afflicted in soul. 

11 Surely, the princes of Zoan are fools : 
As for the wise counsellors of Pharaoh, 
[Their] counsel is become foolish. 
How will ye say unto Pharaoh, 

I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 

12 Where are they ; where, thy wise men ? 
And let them tell thee now, if they know, 
What Jehovah of hosts hath determined 

against Egypt. 

13 The princes of Zoan are become foolish, the 

princes of Noph are deceived ; 
And they have caused Egypt to err, even the 
heads of her tribes. 



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It Jehovah hath mingled in the midst of her a 
spirit of giddiness ; 
And they have caused Egypt to err in all her 
works, 

As a drunkard staggereth in his vomit. 

15 Neither shall there be done by Egypt any 

work, 

Which the head or tail, the branch or rush, may 
perform. 

16 In that day the Egyptians shall be as women ; 
And they shall tremble and fear, 

At the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, 
Which he shall shake over them. 

17 And the land of Judah shall become a terror 

to the Egyptians : 
Whosoever shall call it to his remembrance 
shall fear ; 

Because of the counsel of Jehovah of hosts, 
Which he hath counselled against them. 

18 In that day, there shall be five cities in the 

land of Egypt, 
Speaking the language of Canaan, 
And swearing by Jehovah of hosts : 
The city of destruction shall be the name of 

one of them. 

19 In that day, there shall be an altar to Jehovah, 
In the midst of the land of Egypt ; 

Anda pillar at theboundary thereof to Jehovah: 

20 And it shall be for a sign, and for a witness, 
To Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; 



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CHAP. XIX, 



For that they cried unto Jehovah because of 
oppressors, 

And he sent unto them a saviour, and a vindi- 
cator, and he delivered them. 

21 And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, 
And the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in 

that day ; 

And they shall offer up sacrifice and oblation, 
And they shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and 
shall perform it. 

22 And Jehovah shall smite Egypt, smiting and 

healing her ; 
And they shall turn unto Jehovah, and he 
will be entreated by them, and will heal them. 

23 In that day, there shall be a highway from 

Egypt towards Assyria; 
And the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and 

the Egyptian into Assyria : 
And the Egyptian shall worship with the 

Assyrian. 

24 In that day, shall Israel be a third [nation] 
To Egypt and Assyria ; 

A blessing in the midst of the earth : 

25 Whom Jehovah of hosts hath blessed, saying. 
Blessed be my people, Egypt ; 

And Assyria, the w 7 ork of my hands; 
And Israel mine inheritance. 



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CHAP. XX. 

1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, 
whither he was sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, 

2 and fought against Ashdod and took it: at that 
time Jehovah spake by Isaiah, the son of 
Ainoz, saying, Go, loose the sackcloth from off 
thy loins ; and put off thy shoes from thy feet. 
And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 

3 And Jehovah said, As my servant Isaiah hath 
walked naked and barefoot; three years a sign 
and wonder, against Egypt and against Cush ; 

4 so shall the king of Assyria lead the captives 
of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, the young 
and the old, naked and barefoot with their 
hind-parts uncovered, to the shame of the 

5 Egyptians. And they shall be terrified, and 
ashamed of Cush, their expectation ; and of 

6 Egypt their glory. And the inhabitant of that 
region shall say in that day. Behold, such is 
our expectation ; whither we fled for help, to 
be delivered from the king of Assyria : and 
how shall we escape ? 



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ISAIAH, chap. xxi. 



CHAP. XXI. 

THE ORACLE CONCERNING THE DESERT OF 
THE SEA. 

Like the southern tempests violently rushing 
along, 

From the desert he cometh, from a terrible land. 

2 A dreadful vision hath been revealed unto me : 
The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously , 

and the spoiler spoileth ! 
Go up, O Elam; form the siege, O Media! 
All her sighing have I made to cease. 

3 Therefore are my loins filled with dreadful pain ; 
Anguish hath seized me, as the anguish of a 

woman in travail : 
I am convulsed, so that I cannot hear; I am 
astonished, so that I cannot see. 

4 My heart is bewildered ; terrors have fallen 

suddenly upon me : 
The night, for which I longed, hath he turned 
into fear unto me. 

5 The table is prepared, the watch is set; they 

eat, they drink ; 
Arise, ye princes ; anoint the shield, 

6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me ; 
Go ; set a watchman on his station ; 
Whatever he shall see, let him report, 

7 And he beheld riders, even a pair of horsemen; 



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Riders on asses, riders on camels: 

And he hearkened diligently with much heed. 

8 And he cried out [like] a lion : 

O ray lord, I keep my station on the watch all 

the day long ; 
And on my ward have I continued every night. 

9 And behold ! there come riders, even a pair of 

horsemen ; 

And they answered and said, Babylon hath 

fallen, hath fallen ; 
And all the sculptured images of her gods 

have they broken in pieces against the 

ground. 

10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor ! 
What I have heard of Jehovah of hosts, the 

God of Israel, 
That I have declared unto you. 

11 THE ORACLE CONCERNING DUMAH. 

A voice crieth unto me from Seir : 
Watchman, what of the night r 
Watchman, what of the night r 

12 The watchman said ; 

The morning cometh, and also the night. 
If ye will inquire, inquire ye : come again. 

13 THE ORACLE AGAINST ARABIA. 

In the wilderness in Arabia shall ye lodge, 
O ye travelling companies of Dedan ! 



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14 To meet the thirsty, bring' ye forth water, 
O inhabitants of the land of Tema ! 

With his bread do ye approach the wanderer, 

15 For from the face of the sword have they fled, 
From the face of the drawn sword ; 

And from the face of the bended bow; 

And from the face of the grievousness of war. 

16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me : 
Within yet a year, as the years of a hireling, 
All the glory of Kedar shall fail : 

17 And the residue of the number of the mighty 

bowmen, 

Of the sons of Kedar, shall be diminished : 
For Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it, 

CHAP. XXII. 

THE ORACLE CONCERNING THE VALLEY OF 
VISION. 

"What aileth thee now, that thou art gone up, 
all of thee to the house-tops? 

2 O thou, that wast full of noise, 

A tumultuous city, a joyous city! 
Thy slain are not slain by the sword, 
Neither are they dead in battle. 

3 All thy leaders who fled away together, have 

been taken by the archers ; 
All that, were found in thee have been taken 
together, even they who had fled from far. 

4 Wherefore I said : Turn away from me; I will 

weep bitterly : 



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Labour not to comfort me for the desolation of 
the daughter of my people. 

5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down ? 

and of perplexity ; 
The day of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the 

valley of vision; 
They break down the wall, 
And the outcry for help pierceth unto the 

mountains. 

6 And Elam beareth the quiver, 
With chariots of men and horsemen ; 
And Kir uncovereth the shield. 

7 And it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys 

were tilled with chariots ; 
And the horsemen did set themselves in array 
against the gate. 

8 And when he removed the veil of Judah, 
Thou didst look in that day to the armour of the 

house of the forest. 

9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of 

David, that they have multiplied ; 
And ye collected together the waters of the lower 
pool ; 

10 And ye have numbered the houses of Je- 

rusalem; 

And the houses have ye broken down to fortify 
the wall : 

11 Ye have made also a reservoir for water between 

the two walls, 
For the water of the old pool. 



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CHAP. XXII, 



But ye have not looked unto him, that hath 

disposed this ; 
And him that formed it of old, ye have not 

regarded. 

12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of 

hosts, call 
To weeping and to lamentation ; 
And to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth : 

13 And behold, joy and gladness, 
Slaying of oxen, and killing of sheep; 
Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine : 

Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die. 

14 And the voice of Jehovah of hosts was 

revealed to mine ears : 
Surely this your iniquity shall not be expiated, 

till ye die : 
Saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 

15 Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts i 
Go, get thee to this treasurer, unto Shebna,who 
is over the household ; [and say :] 

16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou 

here? 

That thou hast hewn out here a sepulchre for 

thyself? 

O thou that hewest out thy sepulchre on high, 
That gravest in the rock an habitation for thy- 
self! 

17 Behold, Jehovah casteth thee down with a 

mighty overthrow ; 



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And seizing be seizeth thee : 

18 He shall roll thee up like a ball, 
And whirl thee into a wide country : 

There shalt thou die ; and there shall thy 

glorious chariots be ; 
O thou the shame of the house of thy lord ! 

19 And I will drive thee from thy station, 
And from thy state shall he pull thee down. 

20 And it shall come to pass in that day, 
That I will call my servant, 

Even Eliakim the son of Hilkiah : 

21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, 
And strengthen him with thy girdle : 

And thy government will I commit to his hand ; 
And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of 

Jerusalem, 
And to the house of Judah : 

22 And I will lay the key of the house of David 

upon his shoulder; 
And he shall open, and none shall shut; 
And he shall shut, and none shail open. 

23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place ; 
And he shall become a glorious seat for his 

father's house. 

24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of 

his father's house 5 
The offspring of high and of low degree; 
Every small vessel ; from every sort of goblets ? 
To every sort of meaner vessels. 

25 In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts. 



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ISAIAH. chap, xxiii. 



The nail once fastened in a sure place shall be 
moved ; 

And it shall be cut down, and it shall fall ; 
And the burden, which was upon it, shall be 
cut off : 

For Jehovah hath spoken it. 

CHAP. XXIII. 

THE ORACLE CONCERNING TYRE. 

Howl, O ye ships of Tarshish ! 
For she is laid waste, so that there is no house. 

no entering in : 
From the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. 

2 Be silent, O ye inhabitants of the sea-coast : 
The merchants of Sidon, they that pass over 

the sea, crowded thee. 

3 And upon the mighty waters the seed of 

Sib or, 

The harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; 
And she was the mart of nations. 

4 Be thou ashamed, O Sidon ; for the sea hath 

spoken, 

Even the fortress of the sea, saying : 
I have travailed not, nor brought forth children ; 
Neither have I nourished youths, nor reared up 
virgins. 

5 When the tidings shall reach Egypt, 

They shall be seized with anguish at the tidings 
of Tyre. 



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6 Pass ye over to Tarshish ; 

Howl, O ye inhabitants of the sea-coast ! 

7 Is this your joyous city ; 

Whose antiquity is of ancient days ? 

Her own feet bear her far away to sojourn. 

8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the 

dispenser of crowns ; 
W r hose merchants were princes, 
Her traders the honourable of the earth ! 

9 Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it; 
To defile the pride of all beauty ; 

To make contemptible ail the honourable of 
the earth. 

10 Pass over to thy land, as the Nile, O daughter 

of Tarshish ! 
There is now no defence left. 

11 He hath stretched his hand over the sea ; 
He hath caused the kingdoms to tremble : 
Jehovah hath issued a command concerning 

Canaan, 
To destroy her strong holds. 

12 And he hath said: Thou shalt no more rejoice, 
O thou oppressed virgin, the daughter of Sidon ! 
Arise, pass over to Chittim ; even there thou 

shalt have no rest. 

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; 
This people was of no account: 

(The Assyrian founded it for the inhabitants 

of the desert ; 
They raised its watch-towers; 



ISAIAH. chap, xxiir. 



They erected its palaces :) 

That land hath reduced her to a ruin. 

14 Howl, O ye ships of Tarshish ! 
For your strong hold is destroyed. 

15 And it shall come to pass in that day ; 
That Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, 
According to the days of one king : 

At the end of seventy years, 
Shall Tyre sing as a harlot. 

16 Take the harp, go about the city, 
Thou harlot that wast forgotten ; 

Touch skilfully the strings : sing many songs ; 
that thou mayest again be remembered. 

17 And it shall come to pass at the end of seventy 

years, 

That Jehovah will visit Tyre, 

And she shall return to her gainful practice ; 

And she shall play the harlot with all the 

kingdoms of the world, 
That are upon the face of the earth. 

18 But her traffic, and her gain, shall be holy to 

Jehovah : 

It shall not be treasured up, nor shall it be 

kept in store ; 
For her traffic shall be for them that dwell 

before Jehovah, 
To eat sufficiently, and for beautiful clothing. 



CHAP. XXIV. 



ISAIAH, 



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CHAP. XXIV. 

1 Behold, Jehovah is about to empty the 

land, and to make it waste ; 
Yea, he will turn it upside down, and scatter 
abroad its inhabitants. 

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the 

priest; 

As with the servant, so with his master; 
As with the handmaid, so with her mistress : 
As with the buyer, so with the seller ; 
As with the lender, so with the borrower ; 
As with the debtor, so with the creditor. 

3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly 

spoiled ; 

For Jehovah hath spoken this word. 

4 The land mourneth, it witheretb ; 
The world languisheth, it withereth ; 
The high people of the land do languish. 

5 The land is even polluted under her inhabitants ; 
For they have transgressed the laws, they have 

changed the decree ; 
They have broken the everlasting covenant. 

6 Therefore doth a curse devour the land; 

And the inhabitants thereof suffer punishment. 
Therefore the inhabitants of the land are burnt up ; 
And men are left few in number. 

7 The new wine mourneth ; the vine languisheth ; 
And the merry-hearted do sigh. 

8 The joy of tabors hath ceased; 



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CHAP. XXIV. 



The noise of them that rejoice hath ended ; 

The joy of the harp hath ceased. 
9 They shall not drink wine in the song; 

Strong* drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 
10 A desolate city is broken to pieces ; 

Every house is shut up, so that none can enter. 
1 j There is a crying for wine in the streets, 

All gladness is vanishing away; 

The joy of the land is gone. 

12 In the city is left desolation ; 

And the gate is battered down with a crash. 

13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the land, 

among the people ; 
As the shaking of an olive tree; as the glean- 
ing when the harvest is finished. 

14 They shall lift up their voice, 

They shall sing for the majesty of Jehovah ; 
They shall rejoice from the sea. 

15 Wherefore in the eastern parts, glorify ye 

Jehovah ; 

In the isles of the sea, the name of Jehovah, 
the God of Israel. 

16 From the uttermost part of the land, we have 

heard songs, Glory to the righteous ! 
But! said, My leanness, my leanness ! Wo is me! 
The treacherousdealers have dealttreacherously; 
Yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very 

treacherously. 

17 The terror, the pit, and the snare, 

Are upon thee, O inhabitant of the land. 



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18 And it shall be, that whoso fleeth from the terror, 
He shall fall into the pit; 

And whoso cometh up out of the midst of the pit, 
He shall be taken in the snare ; 
For the floodgates from on high are opened : 
And the foundations of the earth tremble. 

19 The earth is violently shaken ; 

The earth is utterly shattered to pieces ; 
The earth is moved exceedingly. 

20 The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard ; 
And moveth this way and that like a hammock ; 
For her iniquity lieth heavy upon her ; 

And she shall fall, and rise no more. 

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, 
Jehovah shall punish on high the host that is on 

high ; 

And on earth the kings of the earth. 

22 They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are 

gathered for the pit ; 
And shall be shut up in prison : 
And after many days shall they be called to 

account. 

23 And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun 

shall be ashamed ; 
When Jehovah of hosts shall reign 
On mount Zion, and in Jerusalem ; 
And before his ancients in glory. 



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CHAP. XXV. 

1 O Jehovah, thou art my God : 

I will exalt thee; I will praise thy name : 
For thou hast achieved wonderful things ; 
Counsels of old time with very faithfulness. 

2 For thou hast made the city an heap ; 
The fortified town a ruin : 

The palace of strangers to be no city ; 
That it should never be built up again. 

3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee; 
The city of the formidable nations shall fear thee ; 

4 For thou hast been a fortress to the poor ; 
A fortress to the needy in his distress : 

A refuge from the storm,ashadowfrom the heat; 
When the anger of the tyrants is as a storm 
against the wall. 

5 As a heat in a dry place, the tumult of the 

strangers shalt thou bring down ; 
As the heat by the shadow of a cloud, the trium- 
phant songof the tyrants shallbebroughtlow. 

6 And Jehovah of hosts shall make, 
For all the peoples, in this mountain, 

A feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees : 
Of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees 
well refined. 

7 And He shall destroy in this mountain, 

The covering that covereth the face of all the 
peoples ; 

And the veil which is spread over all the nations. 



CHAP. XXVI. 



ISAIAH. 



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8 He shall utterly destroy death for ever ; 

And the Lord Jehovah shall wipe away the 

tear from off all faces ; 
And the reproach of his people shall he remove 

from off the whole earth : 
For Jehovah hath spoken it. 

9 In that day shall they say : 
Behold, this is our God ; 

We have waited for bim, and he hath saved us: 
This is Jehovah ; we have waited for him; 
We will rejoice, and be glad, in his salvation. 

10 For the hand of Jehovah shall rest in this 

mountain ; 

And Moab shall be trampled to pieces in his own 
country, 

As straw is trampled in a dunghill. 

11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst 

thereof, 

As a swimmer spreadeth forth [his hands] in 
swimming ; 

And He shall humble his pride, together with 
the deceit of his hands. 

12 And the bulwark of the lofty walls shall he bring 

down ; 

Lay low, and bring it to the ground, even to the 
dust. 

CHAP. XXVI. 

1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land 
of Judah : 



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CHAP. XXVI. 



We have a strong city, 

Salvation will He appoint for walls and bulwarks. 

2 Open ye the gates that a righteous nation, 
Which keepeth the truth, may enter in. 

3 A well-established mind, 

Wilt thou preserve in perfect peace; 
For in thee it trusteth. 

4 Trust ye in Jehovah for ever; 

For Jehovah is the everlasting God, a rock of 
ages. 

5 For he hath humbled those that dwell on high ; 
The lofty city, he hath brought her down : 

He hath brought her down even to the ground; 
He hath levelled her with the dust. 

6 The foot shall trample upon her ; 

The feet of the afflicted, the steps of the needy. 

7 The way of the righteous is perfectly straight ; 
Thou, most upright, levellest the path of the 

righteous. 

8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, 

we have waited for thee ; 
To thy name, and the remembrance of thee, is the 
desire of our soul. 

9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; 
Yea, with my inmost spirit in the morn have I 

sought thee. 
For when thy judgments are in the earth, 
The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. 
10 Though mercy be shewn to the wicked, yet will 
he not learn righteousness: 



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73 



In the land of rectitude he will deal perversely ; 
And will not regard the majesty of Jehovah. 

11 Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet will they not 

see : 

But they shall see thy zeal for thy people, and 

shall be ashamed ; 
Yea, the fire shall burn up thine adversaries. 

12 Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us : 

For thou hast wrought even all our works for us. 

13 O Jehovah, our God ! 

Other lords, beside thee, have had dominion 
over us : 

But through thee only will we henceforth make 
mention of thy name. 

14 They are dead, they shall not live; 
They are deceased, they shall not rise : 
Because thou hast visited, and destroyed them; 
And all the memorial of themthouhastabolished. 

15 Thou hast added to the nation, O Jehovah ; 
Thou hast added to the nation; thou art glorified: 
Thou hastextendedfar all the borders of the land. 

16 O Jehovah, in affliction have they looked up 

to thee : 

They poured out humble supplication, when 
thy chastening was upon them. 

17 As a woman with child, when her delivery 

approacheth, 
Is in pain, crieth out aloud, in her travail; 
So have we been before thee, O Jehovah. 

18 We have conceived, we have travailed, 

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CHAP. XXTII, 



When we gave birth, it was wind : 
The land hath not been preserved, 
Neither are the inhabitants of the country 
increased. 

19 Let thy dead revive, and the dead bodies of my 

people rise again : 
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust ! 
For the dew of plants is thy dew ; 
And the earth shall bring forth the dead. 

20 Come, O my people; retire into thy secret 

apartments ; 
And shut thy doors after thee : 
Hide thyself as it were for a little moment; 
Until the indignation be overpast. 

21 For behold, Jehovah is going forth from his 

place ; 

To punish for his iniquity the inhabitant of the 
earth ; 

And the earth shall disclose her blood, 
And shall no longer cover her slain. 

CHAP. XXVII. 

1 In that day, 

With his keen and great and powerful sword 
Shall Jehovah punish Leviathan, the long- 

extended serpent, 
And Leviathan, the winding serpent ; 
And shall slay the dragon that is in the deep. 



2 In that day, 



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75 



Sing ye concerning the beloved vineyard : 

3 I Jehovah do guard her, 

I will water her every moment : 
Lest any should injure her, 
I will guard her night and day. 

4 Anger is not in me : 

Would that some one would give me the thorn 

and thistle in battle ; 
Then would I rush against them and burn them 
up together. 
6 But if any one will lay hold of my strength, 
He shall make peace with me ; 
Peace with me shall he make. 

6 In time to come, Jacob shall take root; 
Israel shall blossom and bud forth, 
And fill the face of the world with fruit. 

7 Hath He smitten him, as he smote them that 

smote him 1 

Or is he slain as those are slain, whom he 
slew? 

8 With moderation did Hepunishher,by removing 

her far away ; 
When he swept her away by his violent storm, 
in the day of the east wind. 

9 By this therefore is the guilt of Jacob expiated, 
And assuredly this is the fruit of the removal 

of his sin ; 

When he shall cause all the stones of the altar 
To be broken in sunder, like as limestones ; 
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CHAP. XXVII. 



The images of Astarte and the statues of the 
sun shall no more stand up. 

10 For the fortified city shall be desolate, 

An habitation forsaken, and deserted as a wil- 
derness. 

There shall the bullock feed, and there shall he 

lie down ; 
And consume the branches thereof. 

11 When her boughs are withered, they shall be 

broken off: 

Women shall come, and set them on a blaze : 
For it is a people void of understanding ; 
Wherefore he that made them will not have 

mercy on them, 
And he that formed them will shew them no 
favour. 

12 And it shall come to pass in that day, 
That Jehovah will gather his fruit, 
From the channel of the Euphrates, 

To the stream of Egypt ; 
And ye shall be gleaned up, 
One by one, O ye sons of Israel. 

13 And it shall come to pass in that day ; 
The great trumpet shall be sounded ; 

And those shall come, who were perishing in 

the land of Assyria ; 
And the outcasts in the land of Egypt ; 
And they shall worship Jehovah, 
In the holy mount, in Jerusalem. 



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CHAP. XXVIII. 

1 Wo to the proud crown of the drunkards of 

Ephraim, 

Even the fading flower, their glorious beauty, 
Which is at the head of the rich valley of the 
men that are stupified with wine. 

2 Behold the strong and mighty one of the Lord! 
Like a storm of hail, a destructive tempest ; 
Like a flood of mighty and overflowing waters, 
Shall he dash it to the ground with his mighty 

hand. 

3 Under foot shall it be trodden down, 

The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. 

4 The fading flower, their glorious beauty, 
Which is at the head of the rich valley, 
Shall be as an early fig before summer; 
Which a man seeth, and, while it is scarcely in 

his hand, he swalloweth it up. 

o In that day shall Jehovah of hosts become 
a beauteous crown, 
And glorious diadem, to theresidueof hispeopie; 
0 And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in 
judgment ; 

And strength to them that turn back the battle 
to the gate. 

7 But even these have erred through wine, and 
through strong drink they have reeled : 



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The priest and the prophet have erred through 

strong drink ; 
They are overcome by wine; they have reeled 

through strong drink ; 
They have erred in vision, they have stumbled 

in judgment. 

8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit ; 
So that no place is free. 

9 Whom [say they] would he teach knowledge ? 
And to whom would he impart instruction? 
Are we infants weaned from the milk ? 
Scarcely removed from the breasts ? 

10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon 

precept ; 
Line upon line, line upon line; 
Here a little, and there a little. 

11 Yea verily, by speakers of a strange language, 

and in a foreign tongue ; 
Will He speak to this people. 

12 For when he said unto them : 

This is the true rest ; give ye rest unto the weary; 
And this is the place of happiness; they would 
not hear. 

13 But the word of Jehovah was unto them, 
Precept upon precept, precept upon precept ; 
Line upon line, line upon line ; 

Here a little, and there a little : 
That they should go on, and fall backward, and 
be broken ; 



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And be snared; and taken. 

14 Wherefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, 

ye scoffers ; 

Ye rulers of this people which is in Jerusalem. 

15 Because ye have said, We have made a cove- 

nant with death ; 
And with the grave we have made an agreement: 
The overflowing scourge, when it passeth 

through, shall not reach us: 
For w r e have made lying our refuge ; 
And under falsehood have we hid ourselves. 

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah : 
Behold, I have laid in Zion for a foundation a 

stone, 

A tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure 

foundation : 
He that confideth in it shall not make haste. 

17 And I will set judgment for a line, 
And righteousness for a plummet; 

And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lying, 
And the hiding place the waters shall overwhelm. 

18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled; 
And your agreement with the grave shall not 

stand : 

When the overflowing scourge passeth through, 
By it shall ye be beaten down. 

19 As oft as it passeth through, shall it seize you; 
For morning after morning shall it pass through, 
By day and by night : 

And even the report alone shall cause terror. 



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CHAP. XXVIII. 



20 For the bed is too short, for one to stretch 

himself out at length ; 
And the covering too narrow, for one to wrap 
himself therein. 

21 For as in mount Perazini, Jehovah will arise ; 
As in the valley of Gibeon, shall he be moved 

with anger ; 
That he may perform his work, his strange work; 
And execute his act, his strange act. 

22 And now, give yourselves up to scoffing no more. 
Lest your bands be tightened : 

For devastation, even the judgment decreed 

have I heard 
From the Lord Jehovah of hosts, upon the 
whole land. 

23 Listen ye, and hear my voice ; 
Attend, and hearken unto my words. 

24 Doth the husbandman plough all day long that 

he may sow ? 
Doth he open, and break the clods of his ground ; 

25 Doth he not also, when he hath levelled the 

surface thereof, 
Cast abroad the dill, and scatter cummin, 
And put in the choice wheat, and the picked 

barley, 

And the spelt in their proper ground ? 

26 For He instructeth him as to the right way * 
His God it is that teacheth him. 



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81 



21 For the dill is not threshed with the threshing 
sledge ; 

Nor is the wheel of the wain made to roll over 

the cummin : 
But the dill is beaten with a staff, 
And the cummin with a rod. 

28 Bread-corn is threshed : 

But not forever willhe continue thus to thresh it; 
Though he driveth along the wheels of his wain, 
And his horses, he will not bruise it to dust. 

29 This also proceedeth from Jehovah of hosts ; 
Who is wonderful in counsel, great in wisdom. 

CHAP. XXIX. 

1 Wo to Ariel, to Ariel, 
The city where David dwelt ! 
Add ye year to year ; 

Let the feasts go round in their course. 

2 Yet I will bring distress upon Ariel ; 
And there shall be mourning and sorrow : 
And it shall be unto me as Ariel. 

3 And I will encamp against thee round about, 
And I will distress thee by a garrison ; 
And I will erect bulwarks against thee. 

4 And thou shalt be brought low ; thou shaft 

speak as from beneath the ground ; 
And as from out of the dust shall thy speech be 

heard in a low tone ; 
And thy voice shall come out of the ground, 

like that of a necromancer: 
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And from out of the dust shall thy speech 
whisper. 

5 But the multitude of thy strangers shall be like 

the small dust ; 
And like the flitting chaff the multitude of the 
tyrants : 

Yea, it shall be in an instant, suddenly. 

6 From Jehovah of hosts there shall be a sudden 

visitation, 

With thunder, and earthquake, and a mighty 
voice ; 

With storm, and tempest, and flame of devouring 
fire. 

7 And like a dream, a night vision, shall be 
The multitude of all the nations, 

That fight against Ariel; 

Even all that fight against her, and herfortresses ? 
And that distress her. 

8 It shall even be, 

As when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, 

he eateth ; 
But he awaketh, and his soul is empty : 
Or, as when a thirsty man dreameth, and behold. 

he drinketh ; 
But he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, am! 

his soul hath a craving desire ; 
So shall the multitude of all nations be,, 
That fight against mount Zion. 

9 Stare ye now, and wonder! 
Be ye dazzled and blinded ! 



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They are drunk, but not with wine ; 
They stagger, but not with strong drink. 

10 For Jehovah hath poured upon you a spirit of 

deep sleep, 
And he hath closed up your eyes : 
The prophets, and the rulers, the seers hath he 

blindfolded. 

11 So that the whole vision is to you, 
As the words of a book sealed up ; 

Which men deliver to one that knoweth letters, 

Saying, Read this, I pray thee; 

And he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed up : 

12 And the book is delivered to one that knoweth 

not letters, 
Saying, Read this, I pray thee; 
And he saith, I know not letters. 

13 Wherefore the Lord said : 

Forasmuch as this people draweth near me ; 
With their mouth and with their lips they honour 
me, 

But their heart is far removed from me ; 

And their fear of me is a precept taught of men. 

14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to deal 

wonderfully 
With this people ; so wonderfully and astonish- 
ingly, 

That the wisdom of the wise shall perish, 
And the understanding of the prudent shall 
disappear. 



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CHAP. XXIX. 



15 Wo unto them that seek with deep cunning 

to hide their counsel from Jehovah; 
Whose deeds are in the dark ; 
And they say, 

Who seeth us ? and who knoweth us ? 

16 O your perverseness ! 

Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay ? 
Shall the work say of the workman, He hath 

not made me ? 
And shall the thing formed say of the former 

of it, He hath no understanding? 

17 Is it not yet a very little while, ■ 

And Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful 
field, 

And the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a 

forest? 

18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words 

of this book ; 
And out of obscurity and out of darkness, 
Shall the eyes of the blind see. 

19 The meek also shall increase their joy in 

Jehovah ; 

And the poor among men shall rejoice in the 
Holy One of Israel. 

20 For the oppressor hath ceased, and the scoffer 

is no more ; 

And all that were watching to do evil are 
utterly cut off: 

21 They who would bring in a man guilty for a 

word, 



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85 



And lay snare for him when pleading his cause 

in the gate ; 
And for nought turn aside the just. 

22 Therefore thus saith Jehovah to the house 

of Jacob, 
He who hath redeemed Abraham : 
Jacob shall no more be ashamed, 
Neither shall his face any more wax pale : 

23 For when his children shall see the work of my 

hands, 

Among themselves shall they sanctify my name ; 
They shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, 
And shall fear the God of Israel. 

24 They also that have erred in spirit shall be full 

of understanding, 
And murmurers shall learn knowledge. 

CHAP. XXX, 

1 Wo unto the rebellious children, saith 

Jehovah ; 
Who form counsels, but not from me; 
And make oblations, but not by my spirit : 
That they may add sin to sin. 

2 Who set forward to go down to Egypt; 
But have not inquired at my mouth : 

To strengthen themselves with the strength of 

Pharaoh ; 
And to trust in the shadow of Egypt. 

3 But the strength of Pharaoh shall be your 

shame ; 



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CHAP. XXX* 



And your trust in the shadow of Egypt your 
confusion. 

4 When his princes were at Zoan ; 

And his ambassadors arrived at Hanes : 

5 They were all ashamed of a people that could 

not profit them ; 
Nor be an help nor profit; 
But a shame and also a reproach. 

H THE ORACLE CONCERNING THE BEASTS OF 
THE SOUTH. 

Through a land of distress and difficulty, 
From whence come the lioness and the lion, 
The viper and the flying fiery serpent, 
They carry on the shoulder of young asses their 
wealth ; 

And on the bunch of the camel their treasures ; 
To a people that shall not profit them : 

7 For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose ; 
Wherefore I have called her, Kahab hem 

SHABETH, 

8 Now, go write it for them on a tablet; 
And note it in a book : 

That it might be for time to come ; 
For ever and ever. 

9 For this is a rebellious people, lying children ; 
Children, who will not hear the law of J ehotahj 

10 Who say to the seers, See not ; 

And to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us 
right things ; 



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Speak unto us smooth things; 
Prophesy deceits. 

11 Get you out of the way ; 
Turn out of the path ; 

Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from 
before us. 

12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel : 
Because ye have rejected this word; 

And have trustedin oppression and perverseness; 
Aud have stayed thereon : 

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be unto you, 
Like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a 

high wall ; 

Whose breaking cometh suddenly, in an instant- 

14 And it shall be broken, as the breaking of a 

potter's vessel that is broken in pieces ; 
He shall not spare ; 

So that there shall not be found a sherd among 

its fragments, 
To take up fire from the hearth, 
Or to take water from the cistern. 

15 Verily thus saith the Lord Jehovah, the 

Holy One of Israel : 
In returning and rest should ye have been saved; 
In quietness and in confidence should have been 

your strength ; 
But ye would not. 
! 16 And ye said : Nay, but on horses will we flee; 
Therefore shall ye certainly flee : 
And on swift coursers will we ride ; 



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ISAIAH. chap. xxx. 



Therefore shall they be made swift that pursue 
you. 

17 One thousand, at the rebuke of one; 

At the rebuke of five, [ten thousand of] you 
shall flee : 

Till ye be left as a standard on the summit of a 

mountain ; 
And as a beacon on a hill. 

18 Even for this shall J ehovah tarry, that he may- 

be gracious unto you ; 
Even for this shall he withdraw himself, that he 

may have mercy upon you ; 
For Jehovah is a God of judgment; 
Blessed are all they that wait for him. 

19 Surely the people shall dwell in Zion at Jeru- 

salem ! 
Thou shalt weep no more : 
He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice 

of thy cry ; 

No sooner shall he hear it, than he will answer 
thee. 

20 And the Lord shall give you the bread of ad- 

versity and the water of affliction ; 
And thy teachers shall not be hid any more ; 
But thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 

21 And thine ears shail hear a word behind thee, 
Saying, This is the way ; walk ye in it; 
When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye 

turn to the left. 



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89 



22 And ye shall defile the covering of your graven 

images of silver, 
And the clothing of your molten images of gold : 
Thou shalt cast them away like a polluted 

garment ; 
Thou shalt say unto them, Begone. 

23 And he shall give rain for thy seed, 
With which thou shalt sow thy ground ; 
And bread of the produce of the ground : 
And it shall be abundant and plenteous. 

And thy cattle shall feed in that day in large 
pastures ; 

24 And the oxen, and the young asses, that till 

the ground, 
Shall eat clean provender, 
Which hath been winnowed with the shovel 

and with the fan. 

25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, 
And on every lofty hill, 

Brooks, streams of water ; 

In the day of the great slaughter. 

When the towers fall. 

26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light 

of the sun ; 
And the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, 
As the light of seven days : 
In the day when Jehovah shall bind up the 

breach of his people ; 
And shall heal the wound, which his stroke 

hath inflicted. 



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27 Behold ! the name of Jehovah coraeth 

from afar ; 

H is wrath burnetii, and the flame rageth violently: 
His lips are filled with indignation; 
And his tongue is as a consuming fire. 

28 And his breath is like an overflowing torrent, 
That reacheth to the middle of the neck ; 

To sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: 
And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the 
people, to lead them astray. 

29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when the 

feast is celebrated; 
And gladness of heart, as when one marcheth 

to the sound of the pipe ; 
To go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the 

rock of Israel. 

30 And Jehovah shall cause his glorious voice to 

be heard, 

And make the descending of his arm to be seen ; 
With indignant wrath, and with a flame of 

consuming fire ; 
With a violent storm, and rushing showers, 
and hailstones. 
SI When at the voice of Jehovah the Assyrian 
shall be beaten down ; 
[Then] with the rod He shall smite. 
32 And wherever the appointed rod shall pass, 
Which Jehovah shall cause to rest upon him; 
It shall be accompanied with tabrets and harps; 
And with fierce battles shallhefight againstthem. 



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33 ForTophet is ordained of old ; 

Even the same for the king is prepared ; 
He hath made it deep; he hath made it large ; 
The pile thereof, fire and wood in abundance : 
The breath of Jehovah, like a stream of 
brimstone, doth kindle it. 

CHAP. XXXI, 

1 Wo unto them, that go down to Egypt for 

help ; 

And fix their stay on horses ; 
And rely on chariots, because they are many ; 
And on horsemen, because they are very strong; 
But they look not unto the Holy One of Israel ; 
And unto Jehovah they do not resort. 

2 Yet is He wise, and will bring evil; 
And he will not set aside his word : 

But will arise against the house of evil-doers ; 
And against the help of them that work iniquity. 

3 Now the Egyptians are man, and not God ; 
And their horses are flesh, and not spirit : 
And Jehovah shall stretch forth his hand ; 
And the helper shall stumble, and the holpen 

shall fall down ; 
And they all shall fail together. 

4 For thus saith Jehovah unto me : 
Like as a lion growleth, 

Even the young lion, over his prey : 
When the whole company of shepherds is called 
together against him, 



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CHAP. XXXI. 



At their voice he will not be terrified, 
Nor at their tumult will he be humbled : 
So shall Jehovah of hosts descend to fight, 
For mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 
5 As birds hovering; over their young:: 

So shall Jehovah of hosts protect Jerusalem ; 
Protecting and delivering ; preserving and 
rescuing her. 

0 Return unto him, from whom ye have deeply 
revolted, 
O ye sons of Israel ! 

7 Verily in that day shall they cast away with 

contempt, 

Every man his idols of silver, and his idols of 
gold; 

Which their own hands have made to be unto 
them a sin. 

8 And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword not of 

man ; 

Yea a sword not of mortal shall devour him. 
And he shall flee from the face of the sword ; 
And his choice youths shall become tributaries. 

9 And through terror he shall pass by his strong 

hold ; 

And his princes shall be afraid of the ensign : 
Saith Jehovah, who hath his fire in Zion ; 
And his furnace at Jerusalem. 



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CHAP. XXXII. 

1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness; 
And princes shall rule with equity : 

2 And a man shall be as an hiding-place from 

the wind, 
And a covert from the tempest ; 
As rivers of water in a dry place ; 
And the shadow of a great rock in a weary 

land : 

3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim ; 
And the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 

4 The heart also of the rash shall understand 

knowledge, 

And the tongue of the stammerers shall be 
ready to speak plainly. 

5 The fool shall no longer be called honourable ; 
And the fraudulent shall no more be called 

liberal ; 

6 For the fool will still utter folly ; 
And his heart will work iniquity ; 

To practise impiety, and to speak wrong against 

Jehovah ; 
To make empty the soul of the hungry, 
And the drink of the thirsty will he cause to 

fail. 

7 As for the fraudulent, his instruments are evil ; 
He plotteth mischievous devices; 

To destroy the oppressed with lying words; 
Even when the poor man speaketh right. 



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8 But the generous will devise generous things; 
And in generosity will he persevere. 

9 O ye women that are at ease, arise, hear my 

voice ! 

Ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech ! 

10 Many days and years shall ye be disquieted, 

O ye careless ones : 
For the vintage hath failed, the gathering shall 
not come. 

11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be dis- 

quieted, ye careless ones ! 
Strip ye, make ye bare ; and gird sackcloth 
upon your loins ; 

12 Lamenting for the fields ; 

For the pleasant field, for the fruitful vine. 

13 Over the land of my people, the thorn and the 

brier shall come up; 
Yea over all the joyous houses, over the 
exulting city. 

14 For the palace is deserted, the populous city 

is forsaken ; 
The hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens, 

for a long season ; 
A joy of wild asses, a pasture for the flocks ; 

15 Till the spirit from on high be poured out upon 

us ; 

And the wilderness become a fruitful field ; 
And the fruitful field be esteemed a forest. 

16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness ; 
And righteousness reside in the fruitful field. 



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17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; 
And the fruit of righteousness, quietness and 

assurance for ever. 

18 And ray people shall dwell in a peaceful abode, 
And in habitations secure, 

And in resting-places undisturbed. 

19 But it shall hail at the time when the forest is 

cut down ; 

And into a humble state shall the city fall. 

20 Blessed are ye, who sow your seed upon all 

waters ; 

Who send forth the foot of the ox and the ass. 



CHAP. XXXIII. 

1 Wo unto thee that spoilest, and thou hast 
not been spoiled; 
And that dealest treacherously, and they have 

not dealt treacherously with thee : 
When thou hast ceased from spoiling, thou 

shalt be spoiled ; 
When thou hast made an end of dealing trea- 
cherously, they shall deal treacherously 
with thee. 



2 O Jehovah, have mercy on us; for thee 

have we waited ; 
Be thou our strength every morning; 
Even our salvation in the time of distress. 

3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; 



ISAIAH. chap, xxxin. 



When thou didst raise thyself up, the nations 
were scattered. 

4 But your spoil shall be gathered, as the cater- 

pillar gathereth ; 
As the locusts run to and fro, so shall they 
rush upon it. 

5 Jehovah is exalted; 
Yea, he dweileth on high : 

He hath filled Zion with judgment and justice. 

6 And there shall be stability of thy times, 
Riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge : 
The fear of Jehovah, this shall be his trea- 
sure. 

7 Behold, the valiant men! they raise a cry 

without ; 

The messengers of peace ! they weep bitterly. 

8 The highways are desolate ; 
The traveller ceaseth: 

He hath broken the covenant; he hath despised 

the cities ; 
He regardeth not man. 

9 The land mourneth, it languisheth ; 
Lebanon is put to shame, it withereth : 
Sharon is become like a desert ; 

And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruit. 

10 Now I will arise, saith Jehovah; 

Now will I be exalted; now will I lift up mysel f. 



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11 Ye shall conceive chaff ; ye shall bring forth 

stubble ; 

Your anger, it is a fire that shall consume you. 

12 And the peoples shall be as stones burnt into 

lime ; 

As thorns that are cut off, and consumed in the 
fire. 

13 Hear, O ye that are afar off, my doings; 
And acknowledge, ye that are near, my might. 

14 The sinners in Zion are struck with dread ; 
Trembling hath seized the wicked : 

Who among us can dwell with consuming fire? 
Who among us can dwell with everlasting 
burnings ? 

15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh 

uprightly ; 

He that despiseth the gain of oppression ; 
That shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, 
That stoppeth his ears from hearing of bloodshed, 
And shutteth his eyes from seeing evil : 
\6 He shall dwell on high; 

The strongholds of therocks shallbehis fortress; 
His bread shall be given him ; his waters shall 
not fail. 

17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty ; 
They shall see the land far extended. 

18 Thine heart shall reflect on the terror : 
Where is now the notary? where is the weigher 

of tribute ? 
Where is he that noted down the towers ? 
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19 That fierce people shalt thou see no more; 

A people of a deep speech, which thou couldst 

not understand ; 
Of a barbarous language, which thou couldst 

not comprehend. 

20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemn feasts ; 
Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem, 

A quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not 

be removed ; 
Notone of the stakes shall be plucked up forever, 
Neither shall any of the cords thereof be snapped 

asunder. 

21 But there shall the Mighty One, Jehovah, be 

unto us, 

Instead of rivers, and branching streams ; 
There shall not go therein a ship with oars, 
Neither shall a mighty vessel pass over it. 
?2 For Jehovah is our judge; Jehovah is our 
lawgiver ; 

Jehovah is our king: he shall save us. 

23 Thy ropes are loosed, [O enemy!] 

So that they cannot strengthen the basis of their 
mast ; 

They have not spread the sail. 

Then shall be divided the prey of a great spoil ; 

The lame shall seize the prey. 

24 Neither shall the inhabitant say, I am sick : 
The people that dwell therein are forgiven their 

iniquity. 



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99 



CHAP, XXXIV. 

1 Draw near, O ye nations, and hearken ; 
And attend, O ye peoples ! 

Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; 
The world, and all things that spring from it. 

2 For the indignation of Jehovah is upon all 

nations ; 

And his fury upon all their armies : 
He hath devoted them, he hath given them up 
to the slaughter. 

3 And their slain shall he cast out ; 

And from their carcases their stench shall 
ascend ; 

And the mountains shall melt with their blood. 

4 And all the host of heaven shall vanish away ; 
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a 

scroll ; 

And all their host shall fall down, 
As the falling of a leaf from the vine ; 
And as the falling of a fig from a fig-tree. 

5 For my sword hath already been made drunk 

in the heavens : 
Behold, on Edom it shall descend; 
And on the people justly devoted by me to 

destruction. 

6 The sword of Jehovah is glutted with blood; 
It is made fat with fatness : 

With the blood of lambs, and of goats; 
With the fat of the reins of rams : 

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For Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, 
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 

7 And with them shall be slaughtered the 

buffaloes ; 

And the bullocks, together with the bulls ; 
So that their land shall be drunk with blood, 
And their dust made fat with fatness. 

8 For to Jehovah there is a day of vengeance : 
A year of recompence for the vindication of 

Zion. 

9 And her streams shall be turned into pitch, 
And her dust into brimstone ; 

And her land shall become burning pitch. 

10 By night or by day it shall not be extinguished ; 
For ever shall her smoke ascend: 

From generation to generation she shall lie 
waste ; 

To everlasting ages no one shall pass through 
her. 

11 Butthepelican andthehedgehogshallpossess it; 
The owl and the raven shall dwell in it; 

And He shall stretch over her the line of devas- 
tation, 

And the plummet of destruction. 

12 With respect to her nobles, there is not one there 

whom they might call to the government 
of the kingdom ; 
And all her princes are nothingness. 

13 And in her palaces shall spring up thorns; 
The nettle and the bramble, in her fortresses. 



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101 



And she shall become a habitation for jackals, 
A dwelling-place forthe daughters of the ostrich. 

14 And the wild cats shall meet the jackals; 
And the satyr shall call to his fellow : 
There also the screech-owl shall resort; 
And find for herself a place of rest. 

15 There shall the darting serpent make her nest, 

and lay her eggs : 
And she shall hatch them, and gather her young 

under her shadow. 
There also shall the vultures be gathered 

together ; 
Each one with her mate. 

16 Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: 
No one of these hath been missing; 

No female hath lacked her mate; 

For his mouth, it hath given the command ; 

And his spirit, it hath gathered them. 

17 And he hath cast the lot for them ; 

And his hand hath meted out their portion by 
the line : 

For ever shall they possess the land, 
From generation to generation shall they dwell 
therein. 

CHAP. XXXV. 

1 The desert, and the dry place, shall be glad ; 
And the wilderness shall rejoice, and blossom 

like the rose : 

2 It shall blossom abundantly. 



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And rejoice even with joy and singing; 
The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, 
The beauty of Carmel and of Sharon : 
These shall see the glory of Jehovah, 
The majesty of our God. 
I) Strengthen ye the feeble hands, 
And confirm ye the tottering knees. 

4 Say ye to the agitated in heart : Be ye strong ; 
Fear ye not; behold your God ! 
Vengeance will come; the retribution of God: 
He himself will come, and will save you. 

5 Then shall be opened the eyes of the blind; 
And the ears of the deaf shall be opened. 

6 Then shall the lame bound like the hart, 
And the tongue of the dumb shall sing : 

For in the wilderness shall burst forth waters, 
And streams in the desert. 

7 And the apparent water of the desert shall 

become a pool, 
And the thirsty land springs of water ; 
In the haunt of jackals, where is their couching 

place, 

Shall be a place for reeds and bulrushes, 

8 And a highway shall be there, even a road ; 
And it shall be called the way of holiness : 
The unclean shall not pass over it ; 

But it shall be for them : those who walk along 

this road, 
Though fools, shall not go astray, 

9 There shall not be a lion there; 



CHAP, XXXVI. 



ISAIAH. 



103 



And the savage beast shall not go upon it: 
It shall not be found there; 
But the redeemed shall walk in it. 
10 And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return; 
They shall come to Zion with singing 
And perpetual gladness upon their heads 
Joy and gladness shall they obtain; 
And sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 



CHAP. XXXVI. 

1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year 
of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of 
Assyria came up against all the fenced cities 

2 of Judah, and took them. And the king of 
Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jeru - 
salem, to the king Hezekiah, with a great army : 
and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, 

3 in the high-way of the fuller's field. Then 
came out unto him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, 
who was over the household, and Shebna the 
scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder. 

4 And Rabshakeh said unto them: Say ye now 
to Hezekiah ; Thus saith the great king, the 
king of Assyria: What confidence is this 

5 wherein thou trustest? I have said, but they 
are vain words, there is counsel and strength 
for the war: now on whom dost thou trust, 

6 that thou rebellest against me? Lo! thou trustest 



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CHAP. XXXVL 



in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt: on 
which if a man lean, it will pierce his hand, 
and go through it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt 

7 to all that trust in him. But if thou say to me, 
We trust in Jehovah our God; is it not He, 
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah 
hath removed; and said to Judah and Jerusa- 

8 lem, Before this altar shall ye worship ? Now 
therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my lord, 
the king of Assyria; and I will give thee two 
thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to 

9 set riders upon them. How then wilt thou 
turn away the face of one captain of the least 
of my lord's servants, and put thy trust on 

10 Egypt for chariots and horsemen? And am I 
now come up without Jehovah against this 
land to destroy it? Jehovah hath said unto 
me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 

11 Then said Eliakim, and Shebna, and Joah, 
unto Rabshakeh : Speak, we beseech thee, to 
thy servants in the Syrian language, for we 
understand it; and speak not unto us in the 
Jewish language, in the hearing of the people, 

12 who are on the wall. And Rabshakeh said ? 
Hath my lord sent me to thy lord and to thee, 
to speak these words ? Hath he not [sent me] 
to the men that sit on the wall, that they may 
eat their own filth, and drink their own urine 
with you ? 



chap, xxxvi. ISAIAH. 105 

13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a 
loud voice in the Jewish language, and said : 
Hear ye the words of the great king, the king 

14 of Assyria. Thus saith the king: Let not 
Hezekiah deceive you ; for he will not be able 

15 to deliver you. And let not Hezekiah cause 
you to trust in Jehovah; saying, Jehovah 
will certainly deliver us; this city shall not be 
given up into the hand of the king of Assyria- 

16 Hearken not unto Hezekiah 3 for thus saith 
the king of Assyria: Make peace with me 
and come out unto me. And eat ye every one 
of his own vine, and every one of his own fig- 
tree; and drink ye every one the waters of his 

17 own cistern : until I come and take you to a 
land like your own land ; a land of corn and of 

18 wine, a land of bread and of vineyards. Let 
not Hezekiah seduce you, saying, Jehovah 
will deliver us. Have the gods of the nations 
delivered each his own land from the hand of 

19 the king of Assyria ? Where are the gods of 
Hamath, and of Arpad ? where are the 
gods of Sepharvaim? And have they delivered 

20 Samaria out of my hand ? Who are there 
among all the gods of these lands, that have 
delivered their own lands out of my hand; 
that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of 

21 my hand ? But they held their peace, and 
answered him not a word : for the king's com- 
mand was, Answer him not. 

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CHAP. XX XVI -f. 



22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who 
was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, 
and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, to 
Hezekiah, with their clothes rent; and told him 
the words of Rabshakeh. 

CHAP. XXXVII, 

1 And it came to pass when king Hezekiah 
heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered 
himself with sackcloth, and went into the house 

2 of Jehovah. And he sent Eliakiin, who was 
over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and 
the elders of the priests, covered with sack- 
cloth, to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, the prophetc 

3 And they said unto him : Thus saith Hezekiah; 
This day is a day of distress, and of rebuke, and 
of contumely : for the children are come to 
the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 

4 It may be that Jehovah thy God will hear the 
words of Rabshakeh, whom his lord the king 
of Assyria hath sent to reproach the living 
God, and will reprove the words, which 
Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift 
up thy prayer for the remnant that is yet left. 

5 And the servants of king Hezekiah came to 

6 Isaiah. And Isaiah said unto them : Thus 
shall ye say to your lord ; Thus saith Jehovah: 
Be not afraid because of the words which thou 
hast heard, with which the servants of the king 



CHAP. XXXVII 



ISAIAH. 



107 



7 of Assyria have blasphemed me. Behold I 
will bring a tremour upon him; and he shall 
hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and 
I will cause him to fall by the sword in his 
own land. 

8 And Rabshakeh returned ; and found the king 
of Assyria warring against Libnah : for he had 

9 heard that he was departed from Lachish. And 
he heard say, concerning Tirhakah, king of 
Cush; He is come forth to make war with 
thee; and when he heard it, he sent messengers 

10 to Hezekiah, saying : Thus shall ye speak unto 
Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying, Let not thy 
God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, 
saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the 

11 hand of the king of Assyria. BehoM, thou 
hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done 
to all these lands, that they have utterly 
destroyed them : and shalt thou be delivered ? 

12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those, 
which my father have destroyed? Gozan, and 
Haran, and Ttezeph, and the children of Eden, 

13 which were in Telassar ? Where is the king of 
Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king 
of the city of Sepharvaim, of Henah, and of 
Ivah ? 

14 And Hezekiah received the letters from the 
hand of the messengers, and read them ; and 



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15 he went up to the house of Jehovah; and 
Hezekiah spread them before the presence 
of Jehovah. And Hezekiah prayed unto 

16 Jehovah, saying : O Jehovah of hosts, the 
God of Israel, who art seated on the Cherubim! 
Thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the 
kingdoms of the earth; Thou hast made the 

17 heavens, and the earth! Incline, O Jehovah, 
thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, thine 
eyes, and see; and hear all the words of 
Sennacherib, which he hath sent to reproach the 

18 living God. In truth, O Jehovah, the king? 
of Assyria have destroyed all the nations, and 

19 their lands ; and have cast their gods into the 
fire : for they were no gods, but the work of 
the hand of man, wood and stone; therefore 

20 they have destroyed them. And now, O 
Jehovah our God, save us from his hand; 
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, 
that thou art Jehovah, even thou only. 

21 Then Tsaiah, the son of Amoz, sent unto 
Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah the God 
of Israel: As to that which thou hast prayed 
unto me, concerning Sennacherib king of A ssyria: 

22 This is the word, which Jehovah hath spoken 
against him : 

The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised 
thee, she hath laughed thee to scorn ; 



CHAP. XXXVII. 



ISAIAH. 



109 



The daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her 
head after thee. 

23 Whom hast thou reproached, and blasphemed; 
And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice ? 
And hast lifted up thine eyes on high ? 
Against the Holy One of Israel. 

24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord. 

and said : 

By the multitude of my chariots have I 
ascended 

The height of the mountains, the sides of 
Lebanon ; 

And I will cut down his tallest cedars, his 

choicest fir-trees; 
And I will penetrate into his extreme height, 

the forests of his fruitful field. 

25 And I have digged, and I have drunk waters ; 
And with the sole of my feet have I dried up 

all the rivers of the besieged places. 
20 Hast thou not heard, that, from of old, I had 
disposed it? 
And that, from ancient times, I had formed it ? 
Now have I brought it to pass, that thou 

shouldest be to lay waste 
Fenced cities into ruinous heaps. 
27 Therefore were their inhabitants of small 
strength ; 

They were dismayed and confounded: 
They were as the grass of the field, and as the 
green herb ; 



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ISAIAH. chap, xxxvii, 



As the grass of the house-top; and as the corn 
blasted before it groweth up. 

28 But thy sitting down, and thy going out, and 

thy coming in have I known ; 
And thy rage against me. 

29 Because thy rage against me, 

And thy insolence, is come up into mine ears ; 
Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and 

my bridle in thy lips ; 
And I will turn thee back by the way in which 
thou earnest. 

30 And this shall be a sign to thee : 

Eat this year that which groweth up of itself; 
And the second year that which groweth up of 
the same ; 

And in the third year sow ye, and reap ; 
And plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. 

31 And the escaped of the house of Judah, which 

remain, 

Shall again strike root downward, and bear 
fruit upward. 

32 For from Jerusalem shall go forth the remnant; 
And they that have escaped from mount Zion: 
The zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this. 

33 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the 

king of Assyria : 
He shall not come into this city ; 
Nor shall he shoot an arrow there ; 
Nor shall he present a shield before it ; 
Nor shall he cast up a mound against it. 



chap, xxxviii. ISAIAH. Ill 

34 By the way, in which he came, by the same 

shall he return ; 
And into this city shall he not come; saith 
Jehovah. 

35 And I will protect this city to deliver it ; 

For mine own sake, and for the sake of David 
my servant. 

36 And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and 
smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred 
and fourscore and five thousand men : and 
when the people arose early in the morning, 

37 behold, they were all dead corpses. Then 
Sennacherib kingof Assyria departed, and went, 

38 and returned ; and dwelt at Nineveh. And 
as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch 
his god, Adramelec and Sharezer, his sons, 
smote him with the sword : and they escaped 
into the land of Armenia ; and Esarhaddon his 
son reigned in his stead. 

CHAP. XXXVIII. 

1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death, 
and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came 
unto him ; and said unto him : Thus saith 
Jehovah; Give charge concerning thy house; 

2 for thou shalt die and not live. Then Hezekiah 
turned his face toward the wall, and prayed 

3 unto Jehovah. And he said, Remember now, 
O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have 
walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect 



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heart ; and have done that which is good in 
4 thine eyes. And Hezekiah wept sore. Then 
came the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying; 
6 Go, and say unto Hezekiah, Thus saith 
Jehovah, the God of David thy father. I 
have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears. 
Behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 

6 And I will deliver thee, and this city, from the 
hand of the king of Assyria : and I will defend 

7 this city. And this shall be a sign unto thee 
from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this 

8 thing which he hath spoken. Behold, I will 
turn back the shadow of the degrees, by which 
the sun is gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, 
ten degrees backward. And the sun returned 
backward ten degrees, on the degrees by which 
it had gone down. 

9 THE WRITING OF HEZEKIAH KING OF 

JUDAH, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND 
WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS. 

10 I said, in the noontide of my days 
I shall go to the gates of the grave ; 

I am deprived of the residue of my years ! 

11 I said, I shall no more see Jehovah, 
Jehovah in the land of the living ! 

I shall not behold man any more, 

Being numbered with the tenants of the grave. 

12 My habitation is taken down, and removed 

from me, like a shepherd's tent. 



CHAP. XXXVIII. 



ISAIAH. 



113 



My life is cut off, as by a weaver; he cutteth 

me off from the woof ; 
In a day and a night wilt thou make an end of me. 

13 I resembled a roaring lion even until morning; 
So did he break to pieces all my bones. 

In aday and anight wiltthou make an end of me, 

14 Like a swallow, [or] a crane, so did I twitter ; 
I moaned like the dove, 

Mine eyes fail with looking upward : 
OJEHOVAH,Iamoppressed;be thou surety forme. 

15 What shall I say ? 

He hath promised me, and he hath performed it: 
I will walk humbly all my years on account of 
the bitterness of my soul. 

16 0 Lord, by these things do men live, 

And in all these things is the life of my spirit ; 
For thou hast restored my strength, and pro- 
longed my life : 

17 Behold, he hath changed my anguish into health! 
Thou hast also in love to me drawn back my 

soul from the pit of destruction ; 
Yea thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 

18 For the grave cannot praise thee, 
Death cannot celebrate thee : 

They that go down into the pit shall not await 
thy truth. 

19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I 

do this day ; 
The father to the children shall make known 
thy truth. 



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20 Jehovah was present to save me : 
Therefore my stringed instruments will we strike, 
Ailthedays of our life, inthe houseof Jehovah. 

21 Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump 
of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, 

22 and he shall recover. Also Hezekiah had 
said, What is the sign, that I shall go up to the 
house of Jehovah ? 

CHAP. XXXIX. 

1 At that time Merodach-Baladan, the son 
of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and 
a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard, that 

2 he had been sick, and was recovered. And 
Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them 
his treasure house, the silver, and the gold, and 
the spices, and the precious ointment, and all 
the house of his armour, and all that was con- 
tained in his treasures ; there was not any 
thing in his house, and in all his dominion 

3 that Hezekiah did not shew them. Then came 
Isaiah the prophet unto the king Hezekiah, 
and said unto him : What said these men? and 
from whence came they unto thee? And Heze- 
kiah said; They are come to me from a far 

4 country; from Babylon. Then said he: What 
have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah 
said: They have seen every thing in my house: 
there is nothing among my treasures, which I 



CHAP. XL. 



ISAIAH. 



115 



5 have not shewed them. Then said Isaiah to 
Hezekiah ; Hear the word of Jehovah of 

6 hosts. Behold, the days shall come, when all 
that is in thy house, and all that thy fathers 
have treasured up unto this day, shall be 
carried away to Babylon : there shall not 

7 any thing be left, saith Jehovah. And 
of thy sons which shall issue from thee, 
which thou shalt beget, shall they take, that 
they may be eunuchs in the palace of the king 

8 of Babylon. And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah: 
Good is the word of Jehovah, which thou 
hast spoken : He said moreover; for there shall 
be peace and assurance in my days. 

CHAP. XL. 

1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith 

your God : 

2 Speak ye things pleasing to the heart of Jeru- 

salem, and declare unto her, 
That her warfare is accomplished, that her 

iniquity hath been expiated ; 
That she hath received at the hand of Jehovah, 
More than double for all her sins. 

3 A voice crieth, in the wilderness ; 
Prepare ye the way of Jehovah ! 

Make straight in the desert a highway for our 
God! 

4 Every valley shall be exalted, 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XL. 



And every mountain and hill shall be brought 
low ; 

And the crooked shall become straight; 
And the rough places a smooth plain : 

5 And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, 
And all flesh shall see together, 

That the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it. 

6 A voice saith, Proclaim ! 

And he said, What shall I proclaim? 
All flesh is grass ; 

Andall his goodliness like the flower of thefield: 

7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, 
When the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: 
Surely the people is grass. 

8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; 

But the word of our God shall stand for ever. 

9 Get thee up upon a high mountain, O Zion, 

that bringest good tidings : 
Lift up thy voice with strength, O Jerusalem. 

that bringest good tidings ; 
Lift it up ; be not afraid : 

Say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! 

10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah shall come with 

might, 

And his arm shall rule for him : 
Behold, his reward is with him; 
And the recompense of his work is before him. 

11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; 
In his arm shall he gather up the lambs, 
And in his bosom carry them ; 



CHAP. XL. ISAIAH. 



117 



The nursing ewes shall he gently lead. 

12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow 

of his hand ; 
And hath meted out the heavens by his span ; 
And hath comprehended the dust of the earth 

in a measure, 
And hath weighed the mountains in scales, and 

the hills in a balance ? 

13 Who hath searched out the Spirit of Jehovah; 
Or being his counsellor hath taught him ? 

14 With whom took he counsel, that he should 

instruct him ; 
And teach him in the path of judgment; 
And teach him knowledge, 
And shew to him the way of understanding? 

15 Behold, the nations areas adropfromthebucket; 
And as the small dust on a balance shall they 

be accounted : 
Behold, the isles are as an atom which flitteth 
away ! 

16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to supply fire; 
Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt- 
offering. 

17 All the nations are before him, as though they 

were nought ; 
They are esteemed by him as less than nought 
and vanity. 

18 To whom therefore will ye liken God ? 
Or what likeness will ye compare unto him ? 



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CHAP. XL. 



J 9 The workman casteth an image ; 

And the smith overlayeth it with gold; 

And forgeth [for it] chains of silver. 
20 The poorer donor chooseth a piece of wood 
that will not rot; 

He seeketh unto him a skilful workman, 

To erect an image, which shall not be moved. 
•21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? 

Hath it not been declared to you from the 
beginning ? 

Have ye not understood it from the foundations 
of the earth ? 

22 It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, 
Whose inhabitants are as locusts: 

He stretcheth out the heavens, like a canopy; 
And spreadeth them out, as a tent to dwell in : 

23 He reduceth princes to nothing ; 

He maketh the rulers of the earth as vanity. 

24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall 

not be sown ; 
Yea, their trunk shall not take root in the earth : 
Forifhebutblow upon them,they instantly wither; 
And the whirlwind shall bear them away as chaff. 

25 To whom then will ye liken me ? 

And to whom shall I be equalled ? saith the 
Holy One. 
20 Lift up your eyes on high; 

And see who hath created these. 

He bringeth out their hosts by number : 

He calleth them all by name : 



CHAP. XL. 



ISAIAH. 



119 



Through the greatness of his strength, and the 

might of his power, 
Xot one of them is missing. 

27 Wherefore sayest thou then, O Jacob, 
And why speakest thou thus, O Israel? 
My way is hidden from Jehovah, 

And my cause passeth unregarded by my God. 

28 Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard : 
The eternal God, Jehovah the creator of the 

ends of the earth ; 
He fainteth not, neither is weary; 
There is no searching out of his understanding. 

29 He giveth power to the faint, 

And to them that have no might he increaseth 
strength. 

30 The young men shall faint and be weary, 
And the chosen youths shall utterly fail; 

31 But they that wait upon Jehovah shall gather 

new strength ; 
They shall mount up with wings as eagles ; 
They shall run, and not be weary, 
They shall walk, and not faint. 

CHAP. XLI. 

1 Keep silence before me, O Islands ! 
And let the nations renew their strength : 
Let them draw near ; then let them speak ; 
Let us come near together to judgment 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XLI. 



2 Who hath raised the just man from the East; 
Hath met him at each of his steps ? 

Hath given up the nations before him, that he 

should rule over kings? 
Hath made as the dust, his sword ; 
As chaff driven by the wind, his bow ? 

3 He hath pursued them ; he hath passed safely, 
B y a w ay whi ch n o m an h ad e v er go n e w ith hi sf e e t . 

4 Who hath wrought, and done it; 

Calling the generations from the begiuning? 

I Jehovah, the first; 

And with the last, I am the same. 

5 The isles saw it, and feared ; 
The ends of the earth were terrified. 
They drew near, they came together ; 

6 Every one assisted his neighbour, 

And said to his brother, Be of good courage. 

7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith ; 
He that smootheth with the hammer, him that 

smiteth on the anvil : 
Saying of the solder, It is good ; 
And he fastened it with nails, that it should not 

be moved. 

8 But thou, Israel my servant; 
Thou Jacob, whom I have chosen ; 
The seed of Abraham my friend: 

9 Thou, whom I have taken from the ends of the 

earth 



CHAP. XLI. 



ISAIAH. 



121 



And from the extremities thereof I have called 
thee; 

And said unto thee, Thou art my servant; 
I have chosen thee, and will not reject thee. 

10 Fear not, for I am with thee ; 

Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. 
I will strengthen thee ; yea, I will help thee ; 
Yea, I will uphold thee with my victorious 
right-hand. 

11 Behold, all they that were enraged against thee, 

shall be ashamed and confounded : 
They that contended with thee, shall become 
as nothing, and shall utterly perish. 

12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, 

even the men that strove with thee : 
They shall become as nothing, and as mere 
nought, even the men that opposed thee in 
battle. 

13 For I am Jehovah thy God, that hold thee 

fast by thy right-hand ; 
That say unto thee, Fear not : I am thy helper. 

14 Fearnot,thou worm Jacob; ye mortals of Israel; 
I am thy helper, saith Jehovah ; 

And thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. 

15 Behold, I have made thee a new sharp 

threshing wain ; 
Armed with pointed teeth : 
Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them 

small ; 

And the hills thou shalt render like chaff. 
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122 



ISAIAH. CHAP. XLI. 



10 Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall 
carry them away ; 
And the storm shall scatter them : 
But thou shalt exult in Jehovah ; 
In the Holy One of Israel shalt thou glory. 

17 The poor and needy who seek for water, and 

there is none ; 
Whose tongue is parched with thirst: 
I Jehovah will hear them ; i« : 
The God of Israel, I will not forsake them. 

18 I will open in the high places, rivers; 
And in the midst of the valleys, fountains : 
I will make the desert a sandy pool ; 
And the dry ground springs of waters. 

19 In the wilderness I will give the cedar, the 

acacia, 

And the myrtle, and the oil-tree ; 
I will plant the fir-tree in the desert; 
The plane-tree, and the box together : 

20 That they might see and know ; 

And consider, and understand together, 
That the hand of Jehovah hath done this, 
And the Holy One of Israel hath created it. 

21 Bring forward your cause, saith Jehovah : 
Produce your strong arguments, saith the King 

of Jacob. 

22 Let them approach, and tell us the things that 

shall happen ; 



CHAP. XLI. ISAIAH. 



123 



The things that shall first happen, what they 

are, let them tell us ; 
That we might consider them, and know the 

event of them : 
Or declare to us things to come hereafter, 

23 Tell us the things that will come to pass in the 

later times ; 
That we may know ; if ye be gods : 
Yea do good, or do evil; 
That we may look around us, and behold 

together. 

24 Lo ! ye are less than nothing ; 
And your work is less than nought: 

And abomination is he that maketh choice of 
you. 

25 I have raised up one from the North, and he 

shall come; 

From the rising of the sun shall he call upon 
my name : 

And he shall trample on princes, as on mortar; 
And as the potter treadeth down the clay. 

26 Who hath declared this from the beginning, 

that we should know it ? 
And beforehand, that we should say, It is right? 
But there was not one that declared it; not one 

who had spread the report; 
There was not one, that heard your words. 

27 I am the first [who said] to Zion, Behold, 

behold them ! 

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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XLII. 



And gave to Jerusalem the message of glad 
tidings. 

28 But I looked, and there was no man; 

Even among these things, and there was no 
counsellor ; 

And I inquired of them, and there was no one 
that could return an answer. 

29 Behold, they are all of them vanity ; 
Their works are nought: 

Mere wind and emptiness are their molten 
images. 

CHAP. XLII. 

1 Behold my servant, whom I will uphold; 
My chosen, in whom my soul delighteth : 

I have put my spirit upon him ; 

He shall publish judgment to the nations. 

2 He shall not cry, nor raise a clamour, 

Nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets : 

3 A bruised reed shall he not break; 

And the smoking flax shall he not quench : 
According to truth shall he publish judgment. 
4. He shall not despond, neither shall he be faint; 
Until he hath firmly seated judgment in the 
earth : 

And the isles shall earnestly wait for his law. 

6 Thus saith the God, even Jehovah, 

Who hath created the heavens, and stretched 
them out; 



CHAP. XLII. 



ISAIAH, 



125 



Who hath spread abroad the earth, and the 

produce thereof; 
Who giveth breath to the people upon it, 
And spirit to them that tread thereon : 

6 I Jehovah have called thee in righteousness ; 
And I will take hold of thy hand, and will 

preserve thee ; 
And I will give thee for a covenant to the 
people, for a light to the nations. 

7 To open the eyes that are blind ; 

To bring the captive out of confinement; 
Them that sit in darkness, out of the prison 
house. 

8 I am Jehovah, that is my name; 

And my glory will I not give to another, 
Nor my praise to graven images. 

9 The former predictions, lo ! they are come to 

pass ; 

And new events I now declare : 
Before they spring forth, I make them known 
unto you. 

10 Sing unto Jehovah anew song; 
His praise, from the ends of the earth : 

Ye that go down upon the sea, and the fulness 
thereof ; 

The isles, and their inhabitants. 

11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up 

their voice ; 
The villages that Kedar doth inhabit : 



126 ISAIAH. chap. xLif. 



Let them sing, who inhabit the rocks ; 
Let them shout aloud from the top of the 
mountains : 

12 Let them ascribe glory to Jehotah; 
And declare his praise in the islands. 

13 Jehovah shall march forth like a hero $ 
Like a mighty warrior shall he rouse his 

vengeance : 

He shall cry aloud; yea, he shall shout amain; 
He shall prove himself mighty against his 
enemies. 

14 I have long holden my peace; shall I still 

continue silent? 
Shall I contain myself? I will cry out like a 

woman in travail ; 
I will stifle my breath, and will pour it forth at 

once. 

15 I will make waste mountains and hills ; 
And all their herbage will I dry up : 
And I will change rivers into islands ; 
And the pools will I dry up. 

16 And I will lead the blind by a way that they 

knew not; 

Through paths that they have not known will 

I conduct them : 
I will turn darkness into light before them; 
And rugged places into smooth ground. 
These things will I do for them, and will not 

forsake them. 



CHAP. XLII. 



ISAIAH. 



127 



17 They are turned backward, they are utterly 

confounded, 
Who trust in the graven image; 
Who say unto the molten image, Ye are our 

gods ! 

18 Hear ye deaf ; 

And ye blind, look attentively, that ye may 
see ! 

19 Who is blind, if my servant be not; 

And deaf like my messenger, whom I have 
sent? 

Who is blind, like him that is perfect; 
And blind, like the servant of Jehovah ? 

20 Thou hast seen many things, yet thou dost not 

regard ; 

Thine ears are open, yet thou wilt not hear. 

21 Jehovah was gracious for his righteousness' 

sake : 

He hath magnified the law, and made it 
glorious. 

22 But this is a people spoiled and plundered : 
All their chosen youths are taken in the toils. 
And in prison houses are they hid : 

They are become a spoil, and there was none 

to rescue them : 
A plunder, and no one said, Restore. 

23 Who is there among you that will give ear to 

this ? 

That will attend, and hearken, for the future ? 

24 W r ho hath given Jacob for a spoil, 



128 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XLIII. 



And Israel to the plunderers ? 

Was it not Jehovah ; He, against whom we 

have sinned ? 
In whose ways they would not walk, 
And whose law they would not obey ? 
25 Therefore he hath poured upon them the heat 

of his wrath, and the violence of war : 
And it kindled a flame round about him, yet he 

did not regard it ; 
And it set him on fire, but he laid it not to 

heart, 

CHAP. XLIII. 

1 But now, thus saith Jehovah ; 

Who hath created thee, O Jacob; and hath 

formed thee, O Israel : 
Fear thou not, for I have redeemed thee ; 
I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 

2 When thou passest through the waters, I am 

with thee ; 

And through the rivers, they shall not over- 
whelm thee : 

When thou walkest in the fire, thou shalt not 
be scorched ; 

And the flame shall not take hold of thee. 

3 For I am Jehovah, thy God; 

The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : 
I have given Egypt for thy ransom ; 
Cush and Seba in thy stead. 

4 Because thou hast been precious in my sight- 



CHAP. XLIII, 



ISAIAH. 



129 



Thou hast been honoured, and I have loved 
thee : 

Therefore will I give men in thy stead, 
And peoples in place of thy person. 

5 Fear thou not, for I am with thee : 
From the East I will bring thy seed, 
And from the West will I gather thee. 

6 I will say to the North, Give up; 
And to the South, Withhold not : 
Bring my sons from afar; 

And my daughters from the ends of the earth : 

7 Every one that is called by my name, 
Whom for my glory I have created ; 
Whom I have formed, yea whom I have made. 

8 Bring forth the people, blind, although they 

have eyes ; 
And deaf, although they have ears. 

9 Let all the nations be gathered together. 
And let the peoples be collected. 
Who among them will declare this ; 

And will tell us, what first shall come to pass ? 
Let them produce their witnesses, that they 

may be justified : 
Or let them hear, and say, This is true. 
10 Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah ; 
And my servant, whom I have chosen : 
That ye may know, and believe me ; 
And understand that I am He. 
Before me there was no god formed, 
And after me none shall exist. 

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ISAIAH. chap. xliit. 



Jl I, even I, am Jehovah ; 

And beside me there is no saviour. 

12 I have declared my purpose, and I have saved ; 
And have made it known ; nor was it any 

strange god among you : 
And ye are now my witnesses, saith Jehovah 7 
that I am God. 

13 Ever since time began, I am He ; 

And there is none that can rescue out of my 
hand : 

I will work ; and who shall undo it ? 

14 Thus saith Jehovah, 

Your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel : 
For your sake have I sent unto Babylon ; 
I have brought down the fugitives, all of them ; 
And the Chaldeans, whose cry is towards the 
ships. 

15 I am Jehovah, your Holy One* 
The creator of Israel, your king. 

16 Thus saith Jehovah ; 
Who made a way in the sea; 
And a path in the mighty waters : 

17 Who hath brought forth the chariot and horse, 
, the army and the warrior ; 

Together they lay down, they rose no more; 
They were extinguished, they were quenched 
like tow : 

18 Remember not the former things ; 



CHAP. XLIir. 



ISAIAH. 



131 



And the things of ancient times regard not : 

19 Behold, I make a new thing. 

Even now shall it spring forth: will ye not 
regard it? 

Yea I will make in the wilderness a way ; 
In the desert, streams of water. 

20 The wild beast of the field shall glorify me : 
The jackals, and the daughters of the ostrich : 
Because I have given waters in the wilderness; 
And flowing streams in the desert; 

To give drink to my people, my chosen : 

21 This people, whom I have formed for myself ; 
They shall recount my praise. 

22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; 
For thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. 

23 Thou hast not brought to me the lamb of thy 

burnt-offering ; 
Neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacri- 
fices : 

I have notburdenedthee with exactingoblations; 
Nor weariedthee with demands of frankincense: 

24 Thou hast not purchased for me with silver the 

aromatic reed; 
Neither hast thou satiated me with the fat of 

thy sacrifices. 
Nay, thou hast burdened me with thy sins ; 
Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. 

25 I, even I, am He, 



132 



ISAIAH. CHAP. XLIV 



That blot out thy transgressions for mine own 
sake ; 

And thy sins I will not remember. 

26 Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: 
Set forth thine own cause, that thou mayest be 

justified. 

27 Thy first father hath sinned ; 

And thy interpreters have transgressed against 
me ; 

28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the 

sanctuary ; 
And have given Jacob to the curse, 
And Israel to reproaches. 

CHAP. XLIV. 

1 But hear now, O Jacob my servant ; 
And Israel, whom I have chosen : 

2 Thus saith Jehovah, thy maker; 

And he that hath formed thee ; who from the 

womb hath helped thee : 
Fear thou not, O my servant Jacob ; 
And thou Jeshurun, whom I have chosen : 

3 For I will pour waters on the thirsty ; 
And flowing streams on the dry ground : 
I will pour out my spirit on thy seed ; 
And my blessing on thine offspring. 

4 And they shall spring up, as among the grass ; 
As willows by the water-courses. 

5 One shall say ; I belong to Jehovah : 



CHAP. XLIV. 



ISAIAH. 



133 



And another shall call himself by the name of 
Jacob : 

And this shall inscribe his hand to Jehovah ; 
And shall be surnamed by the name of Israel. 

6 Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel ; 
And his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts : 

I am the first, and I am the last; 
And beside me there is no God. 

7 And who like me could foretell, 

And declare it; or who could dispose itforme 5 
From the time that I have appointed the ancient 
people ; 

So that the things which are now coming, and 
what shall come hereafter, should become 
known unto them ? 

8 Fear ye not, neither be ye afraid : 

Have I not declared it unto you from the first ? 
Yea, I have foreshewn it ; and ye are my wit- 
nesses. 
Is there a God beside me ? 
Yea, there is no rock ; I know not any. 

9 They that form the graven image are all of them 

vanity ; 

And their favourite works shall not profit : 
Yea, they are witnesses for them, that they see 
not, 

Nor understand; so that they may be ashamed. 
10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven 
image, 



134 



ISAIAH. CHAP. XLIV, 



That is profitable for nothing ? 

11 Behold, all his associates shall be ashamed ; 
And the workmen themselves above all men. 
Let them assemble themselves, all of them; let 

them stand up ; 
They shall fear, and be ashamed together. 

12 The smith [maketh] a hatchet, 

And worketh it among the coals, and fashioneth 

it with hammers ; 
And worketh it with the strength of his arm : 
Yea, he is hungry, and his strength failerh 

him; 

He drinketh no water, and he is faint. 

13 The carpenter stretcheth his line ; 

He marketh out the form of it with red ochre : 
He worketh it with planes, 
And with the compass he marketh it out : 
He maketh it after the figure of a man, 
According to the beauty of the human form, 
that it may abide in the house. 

14 He heweth down cedars for his use : 
And he taketh the pine, and the oak ; 

And he chooseth them for himself from among 

the trees of the forest. 
He planteth the ash, and the rain nourisheth it: 

15 Then shall it be for man to burn ; 

And he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself ; 

Yea he kindleth it, and baketh bread ; 

He also formeth a god, and worshippeth it: 



CHAP. XLIV. ISAIAH, 



135 



He maketh of it a graven image, and boweth 
down unto it. 

16 Part of it he burneth in the fire; 
On a part of it he eateth flesh : 
He roasteth meat, and is satisfied ; 

He also warmeth himself, and saith, Aha 3 
I am warmed, I have seen the fire. 

17 And the remainder thereof he maketh a god ? 

even his graven image; 
He boweth down to it, and worshippeth it; 
And he prayeth unto it, and saith ; 
Deliver me, for thou art my God ! 

18 They know not, neither do they understand : 
For he hath closed up their eyes, that they 

cannot see ; 
Their hearts, that they cannot rightly discern : 

19 Neither doth he consider in his heart; 
Neither hath he knowledge, nor understanding, 

to say ; 

Part of it I have burnt in the fire; 

I have also baked bread on the coals thereof ; 

I have roasted flesh, and I have eaten : 

And shall I make the remnant an abomination ? 

Shall I bow myself down to the stock of a tree? 

20 He feedeth on ashes ; a deluded heart leadeth 

him aside ; 

So that he cannot deliver his own soul, nor say^ 
Is there not a lie in my right hand 1 



21 Remember these things, O Jacob ; 



136 ISAIAH. chap. xli. 



And, Israel ; for thou art my servant : 
I have formed thee; thou art my servant; 

0 Israel, by me thou shalt not be forgotten. 

22 I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy trans- 

gressions ; 
And as a cloud thy sins : 
Return unto me ; for I have redeemed thee. 

23 Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovah hath 

effected it ; 

Utter a joyful sound, O ye depths of the earth; 
Burst forth into song, O ye mountains ; 
Thou, forest, and every tree therein ! 
For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob ; 
And will be glorified in Israel. 

24 Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer ; 
Even he that formed thee from the womb : 

1 am Jehovah, who maketh all things ; 
Who stretcheth out the heavens alone ; 
Who spreadeth abroad the earth by myself: 

26 I am He, who frustrateth the foretokens of the 
impostors ; 
And maketh the diviners mad ; 
Who turneth the wise men backward, 
And maketh their knowledge foolish : 
26 Who establisheth the word of his servant; 
And accomplisheth the counsel of his messengers: 
Who saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inha- 
bited ; 



CHAP. xlv. ISAIAH. 



137 



And to the citiea of Judah, Ye shall be built ; 
And her desolate places I will restore : 

27 Who saith to the deep, Be dry; 
And I will make dry thy rivers : 

28 Who saith to Cyrus, Thou art my shepherd! 
And he shall fulfil all my purpose : 

Who saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built: 
And to the Temple, Thy foundations are laid, 

CHAP. XLV. 

1 Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed ; 

To Cyrus, whom I hold fast by the right hand : 
That I mav subdue nations before him: 
And ungird the loins of kings : 
That I may open before him the two leaved 
gates : 

And the gates shall not be shut. 

2 I will go before thee ; 

And make the crooked places straight : 
I will break in pieces the gates of brass, 
And cut in sunder the bars of iron. 

3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness; 
And the stores deep hidden in secret places : 
That thou mayest know that I am Jehovah ; 
He that calleth thee by thy name, the God of 

Israel. 

4 For the sake of my servant Jacob ; 
And Israel, my chosen; 

I have even called thee by thy name ; 



138 



ISAIAH. CHAP. XLV, 



I have surnanied thee, though thou hast not 
known me. 

5 I am Jehovah, and there is none else; 
Beside me there is no God : 

I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me. 

6 That they may know, from the rising of the sun, 
And from the West, that there is none beside me: 
I am Jehovah, and there is none else; 

7 Forming light, and creating darkness ; 
Making peace, and creating evil : 

I Jehovah am the author of all these things, 

8 Dropdown, O yeheavens,the dewfrom above; 
And let the clouds shower down righteousness : 
Let the earth open her bosom, and let salvation 

produce her fruit; 
And let justice push forth her bud together : 
I Jehovah have created it. 

9 Wo unto him that contendeth with the power 

that formed him ; 
The potsherd with the moulders of the clay ! 
Shall the clay say to the potter, What makest 
thou? 

Or thy work ; He hath no hands ? 
10 Wo unto him, that saith to his father, What 
begettest thou ? 
And to his mother, What dost thou bring forth I 



11 Thus, saith Jehovah, 



CHAP. XLV. 



ISAIAH. 



1Z9 



The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: 
Do ye question me concerning things to come ? 
Do ye give me directions concerning my sons, 
and concerning the work of my hands ? 

12 I have made the earth; 
And created man upon it: 

My hands have stretched out the heavens; 
And to all the host of them I have given com- 
mand : 

13 I have raised him up in righteousness ; 
And I will level all his ways. 

He shall build my city, and release my captives: 
Not for price, nor for reward : 
Saith Jehovah of hosts. 

14 Thus saith Jehovah : 

The wealth of Egypt, the merchandise of Cush ? 
And the Sabeans tall of stature, 
Shall come over to thee, and shall be thine : 
They shall follow thee; in chains shall they 
pass along ; 

And unto thee shall they bow down, unto thee 

shall they supplicate : 
Surely God is in thee, and there is no other 
God besides. 

15 Verily, thou art a God that hidest thyself: 
O God of Israel, the Saviour ! 

16 They are ashamed, and also confounded, all 

of them ; 



140 



ISAIAH. CHAP. XLY. 



Together they retire in confusion, the fabri- 
cators of idols. 

17 [But] Israel shall be saved through Jehovah 

with au everlasting salvation ; 
Ye shall not be ashamed, neither shall ye be 
coufounded, to the ages of eternity. 

18 For thus saith Jehovah ; 

Who hath created the heavens ; He is God : 
Who hath formed the earth and made it; He 

hath established it ! 
Not in vain hath he created it; he hath formed 

it to be inhabited : 
T am Jehovah, and none besides: 

19 I have spoken in secret, in a dark place of 

the earth; 

I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye 
me in vain : 

I am Jehovah, who speak the truth; who 
declare things that are right. 

20 Assemble yourselves together, and come ; 
Gather yourselves together, ye that are escaped 

of the nations. 
They know nothing, that carry about the wood, 

which they have carved ; 
They address themselves in prayer to a god. 

which cannot save. 

21 Publish it abroad, and bring them near; and 

let them consult together : 



CHAP ? XLVI. 



ISAIAH. 



141 



Who hath made this known long before, hath 

declared it from the first? 
Is it not I Jehovah, than whom there is no 

other God ? 

A God that uttereth truth,, and granteth salva- 
tion ; there is none beside me. 

22 Look unto me and be saved, all ye ends of the 

earth : 

For I am God, and there is none else. 

23 By myself have I sworn; truth is gone forth 

from my mouth ; 
The word, and it shall not be revoked : 
That unto me every knee shall bow, 
Every tongue shall swear : 

24 Surely, shall one say of me, In Jehovah is 

salvation and strength : 
To him they shall come, and shall be ashamed, 
all that are incensed against him : 

25 In Jeh ovah shall all the seed of Israel be 

justified, and shall glory. 

CHAP. XLVI. 

1 Bel boweth down, Xebo stoopeth ; 

Their idols are laid on the beasts and the cattle: 
Your light burdens are become oppressive ones, 
A load on the weary beast. 

2 They stoop, they bow down together : 
They are not able to deliver the burden ; 
But they themselves go into captivity. 



14*2 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XLVI. 



3 Hearken unto me, 0 house of Jacob ; 
And all ye the remnant of the house of Israel : 
Ye that have been borne by me from the birth; 
That have been carried from the womb. 

4 And even to your old age, I am the same ; 
And even to your gray hairs, I will carry you. 
I have made, and I will bear; 

Even I will carry, and will deliver you. 

5 To whom will ye liken me, and equal me? 
And to whom will ye compare me, that we 

may be like ? 

6 Ye that lavish gold out of the bag; 
And that weigh silver in the balance. 

They hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: 
They worship him; yea they prostrate them- 
selves before him. 

7 They bear him on the shoulder; they carry 

him about ; 

They set him down in his place, and he standeth: 

From his place he shall not remove ; 

Yea, one shall cry unto him, and he shall not 

answer; 

Neither will he deliver him from his distress. 

8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men : 
Recall it to mind, O ye transgressors. 

9 Remember the former things, of old time : 
Verily I am G od, and none else ; 

I am God, and there is no one like me. 
10 From the beginning making known the end ; 



CHAP. XLVII. 



ISAIAH. 



143 



And from early times, the things that are not 

yet done : 
Saying, My counsel shall stand; 
A nd whatever I have willed, I will accomplish : 

11 Calling from the East the eagle ; 

And from a land far distant, the man of my 
counsel : 

Yea I have spoken it, I will also bring it to 
pass ; 

I have formed the design, I will also execute it. 

12 Hearken unto me, O ye stubborn of heart ; 
Ye that are far distant from deliverance : 

13 I will bring my promised deliverance near, it 

shall not be far distant; 
And my salvation shall not be delayed. 
I will give in Zion salvation ; 
Unto Israel my glory. 

CHAP. XLVII. 

1 Descend, and sit on the dust, O virgin 

daughter of Babylon ! 
Sit on the bare ground, without a throne^ O 

daughter of the Chaldeans : 
For thou shalt no longer be called the tender, 

and the delicate. 

2 Take the mill, and grind the corn : 

Take off thy veil, take up the train of thy 
garment ; 

Make bare thy leg; wade through the rivers. 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XLVII, 



3 Disclosed shall be thy nakedness ; yea, thy 

shame shall be seen : 
I will take full vengeance, and will not spare 
a man. 

4 Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his 

name; 

The Holy One of Israel ! 

5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, 

O daughter of the Chaldeans ! 
For thou shalt no longer be called the lady of 
the kingdoms. 

6 I was angry with my people; I polluted mine 

inheritance ; 
And gave them up into thy hand: 
Thou didst not shew mercy unto them ; 
Upon the aged thou didst very heavily lay thy 

yoke. 

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever : 
So that thou didst not lay these things to thj 

heart ; 

Neither didst thou recollect the latter en( % 
thereof. L 

8 But hear now this, O thou voluptuous, that 

sittest in security : 
Thou that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there 

is none else ; 
I shall not sit a widow ; neither shall I know 

the loss of children. 



chap. XLvir. ISAIAH. J45 

9 Yet shall these two things come upon thee in 
a moment, 

In one day, loss of children and widowhood : 
They shall come upon thee in their perfection ; 
Notwithstanding the multitude of thy sorceries, 
and the great strength of thine enchant- 
ments. 

10 But thou didst trust in thy wickedness, and 

saidst, None seeth me : 
Thy wisdom and thy knowledge have made 

thee rebellious ; 
So that thou saidst in thy heart, I am, and 

there is none besides. 

11 Therefore shall there come upon thee evil, 
The dawn whereof thou shalt not perceive ; 
And there shall fall upon thee mischief, 
Which thou shalt not be able to expiate ; 
And suddenly shall there come upon thee 

destruction, of which thou shalt have no 
apprehension. 

12 Persist now in thine enchantments ; 

And in the multitude of thy sorceries, in which 

thou hast laboured from thy youth : 
If peradventure thou mayest be profited, 
If thou mayest be strengthened by them. 

13 Thou art wearied in the multiplicity of thy 

counsels : 

Let them stand up now, and save thee, 
The observers of the heavens, the gazers on 
the stars ; 

H 



146 



ISAIAH. CHAP, XLVII1, 



They that prognosticate at every new moon, 
What are the events that shall happen unto thee. 

14 Behold, they shall be like stubble; the fire 

shall burn them up ; 
They shall not deliver their own souls from the 

power of the flame : 
There shall not be a coal to warm at ; 
Nor a fire to sit before it. 

15 Thus have they, amongst whom thou hast 

laboured, been unto thee; 
Those with whom thou hast had intercourse 

from thy youth ; 
They are bewildered, every one in his quarter; 
There is none to save thee. 

CHAP. XLVIII. 

1 Hear this, O house of Jacob ; 

Ye that are called by the name of Israel : 
Ye that flow from the fountain of Judah ; 
Ye that swear by the name of Jehovah, 
And publicly acknowledge the God of Israel ; 
But not in sincerity, nor in truth : 

2 For they take their name from the Holy City, 
And stay themselves upon the God of Israel ; 
Jehovah of hosts is his name. 

3 The former things I had shewed unto you from 

the first ; 

And from my mouth they proceeded, and I had 
declared them : 



CHAP- XLVIII. 



ISAIAH. 



147 



On a sudden I effected them, and they came 
to pass. 

4 Because I knew that thou wast obstinate, 
And that thy neck was a sinew of iron, 
And thy forehead brass. 

5 Therefore I shewed them unto thee from the 

first; 

Before they came to pass, I made thee hear 
them ; 

Lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol caused them; 
And my graven and my molten image hath 
directed them. 

6 Thou didst hear it beforehand; have now regard 

to the whole of it : 
And will ye not make it known ? 
From this time I will make thee hear new things; 
Even hitherto secret, so that thou couldest not 

have known them. 

7 They are produced now, and not of old; 

And before this day thou hast not heard of 
them : 

Lest thou shouldest say, Lo ! I knew them. 

8 Yea, thou hast not heard ; yea, thou hast not 

known ; 

Yea, formerly thine ear was not opened : 
For I knew that thou wouldest ceitainly deal 
falsely, 

And that Apostatewas thy name fromthewomb. 

9 For the sake of my name I will postpone my 

anger; 

h 2 



148 



ISAIAH. CHAP. XLVIII, 



And for the sake of my praise I will withhold 

it from thee, 
That I may not utterly cut thee off. 

10 Behold, I have purified thee in the fire, but not 

as silver; 

I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction. 

11 For my sake, for my sake will I do it; for how 

should my name be blasphemed? 
And my glory I will not give to another. 

12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob ; 
And Israel, whom I have called : 

I am He ; I am the first, and I am the last : 

13 Yea my hand hath founded the earth; 

And my right hand hath expanded the heavens; 
When I summon them; they present themselves 
together. 

14 Gather yourselves together all of you, and 

hear : 

Who among you hath declared these things ? 
He. whom Jehovah hath loved, will execute 

his will on Babylon, 
And his power on the Chaldeans. 

15 I, even I, have spoken ; yea I have called him: 
I have brought him, and his way will prosper. 

16 Draw near unto me, and hear ye this : 
From the beginning I have not spoken in 

secret : 

From the time it existed, there am I : 



CHAP. XLVIII. 



ISAIAH. 



149 



And now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, 
and his Spirit. 

17 Thus saith Jehovah ; 

Thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel : 
I am Jehovah, thy God ; 
Who teacheth thee what will tend to thy pro- 
fit ; 

Who directeth thee in the way wherein thou 
shouldest go. 

18 0 that thou hadst attended to my commands ! 
Then had thy prosperity been like the river ; 
And thy blessedness, as the waves of the sea. 

19 And thy seed had been as the sand; 

And the issue of thy bowels, like the pebbles 
thereof : 

Thy name should not be cut off, nor destroyed 
from before me. 

20 Go ye forth from Babylon; flee ye from 

the land of the Chaldeans with the voice 
of joy : 

Publish ye this, and make it to be heard ; 

utter it forth even to the end of the earth : 
Say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant 

Jacob ; 

21 They thirsted not in the desert, through which 

he led them ; 
Waters from the rock he caused to flow for 
them ; 



150 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XLIX* 



Yea be clave the rock, and forth gushed the 

waters. 

22 There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the 
wicked. 

CHAP. XLIX. 

1 Listen, O isles, unto me ; 
And hearken, ye nations, from far. 
Jehovah hath called me from the womb ; 
From the bowels of my mother hath he made 

mention of my name. 

2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp 

sword ; 

In the shadow of his hand he hath concealed me : 
Yea he hath made me a sharpened arrow, 
In his quiver hath he hidden me. 

3 And he said unto me, Thou art my servant ; 
O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 

4 And I said : I have laboured in vain ; 

For nought, and for vanity, I have spent my 
strength : 

Nevertheless my just claim is with Jehovah, 
And the reward of my work with my God. 

5 And now, saith Jehovah ; 

Who hath formed me from the womb to be his 
servant, 

To bring Jacob back again unto him, 
And that Israel unto him may be gathered : 
(For I am glorious in the eyes of Jehovah, 
And my God is my strength.) 



CHAP, XLIX. 



ISAIAH. 



151 



6 Yea He said, It is not sufficient that thou be 

my servant, 
To raise up the tribes of Jacob, 
And to bring back the saved of Israel : 
1 will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, 
To be my salvation unto the end of the earth. 

7 Thus saith Jehovah, 

The Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One; 

To him, who is despised of men ; to him whom 

the nation abhorreth ; 
To the servant of rulers : 
Kings shall see him, and shall rise up ; 
Princes, and they shall bow themselves : 
Because of Jehovah, who is faithful; 
The Holy One of Israel, who hast chosen thee, 

8 Thus saith Jehovah : 

In time of mercy will I hear thee, 

And in the day of salvation will I help thee ; 

And I will preserve thee, and give thee for 

a covenant of the people ; 
To restore the land, to give possession of the 

desolate heritages : 

9 Saying to the bounden, Go forth ; 

To those that are in darkness, Come into light. 
They shall feed beside the ways, 
And on all the eminences shall be their pasture. 
10 They shall not hunger, nor thirst ; 

Neither shall the glowing heat, or the sun, smite 
them : 



152 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. XLIX- 



For he that hath compassion on them, shall 
lead them ; 

And shall guide them to the bursting springs of 
water. 

1 1 And I will make all my mountains an even way ; 
And my causeways shall be raised on high. 

12 Behold ! these shall come from far ; 

Audio ! these from the North and the West; 
And these from the land of Sinim. 

13 Sing aloud, O ye heavens ; and rejoice. 

O earth ; 

Ye mountains, burst forth into song : 
For Jehovah hath comforted his people, 
And hath had compassion on his afflicted. 

14 But Zion saith : Jehovah hath forsaken me; 
And the Lord hath forgotten me. 

15 Can a woman forget her suckling; 

That she should have no tenderness for the son 

of her womb ? 
Yea, they may forget ; 
Yet I will not forget thee. 

16 Behold on the palms of my hands have I 

graven thee : 
Thy walls are ever in my sight. 

17 Thy sous have made haste : 

Thy destroyers and thy demolishers have de- 
parted from thee. 

18 Lift up thine eyes around, and see ; 



CHAP. XLIX. 



ISAIAH. 



153 



All these are gathered together, they come to 
thee. 

As I live saith Jehovah, 

Surely thou shalt clothe thyself with them all, 

as with an ornament; 
And thou shalt bind them on thee as doth a 

bride. 

19 For in thy waste, and in thy desolate places, 
And thy land laid in ruins; 

Even now shalt thou be straitened by reason of 

the inhabitants ; 
And they that devoured thee shall be removed 

far away. 

20 Thy sons, of whom thou wast bereaved, shall 

again say in thine ears : 
This place is too strait for me; make way for 
me that I may dwell. 

21 And thou shalt say in thine heart : Who hath 

begotten me these ? 
I was childless and barren ; 
An exile, and an outcast ; who then hath nursed 

these up ? 

Lo! I was left alone; these then, where werethey? 

22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah : 
Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, 
And to the peoples I will raise my signal ; 
And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, 
And thy daughters shall be borne on their 

shoulder : 

23 And kings shall be thy foster-fathers, 

H 3 



154 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. L, 



And their queens thy nursing-mothers: 

With their faces to the earth shall they bow 

down unto thee, 
And shall lick the dust of thy feet. 
And thou shalt know, that T am Jehovah ; 
For they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. 

24 Shall the spoil be taken away from the mighty? 
Or shall the captive seized by right of strength 

be rescued 7 

25 Yea, thus saith Jehovah; 

Even the captive seized by the mighty shall be 
retaken ; 

And the spoil seized by the terrible shall be 
rescued : 

For with those, that contend with thee, I will 

contend ; 
And I will save thy children. 

26 And I will gorge thine oppressors with their 

own flesh; 

And with their own blood, as with new wine y 

shall they be drunken : 
And all flesh shall know, 
That I Jehovah am thy Saviour ; 
And that thy Redeemer is the Mighty One of 

Jacob. 

CHAP. L. 

1 Thus saith Jehovah : 

Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, 



CHAP. L. 



ISAIAH. 



155 



By which I have dismissed her? 
Or who is he among my creditors, 
To whom I have sold you ? 
Behold, for your iniquities are ye sold; 
And for your transgressions is your mother dis- 
missed. 

2 Wherefore came I, and there was no man ? 
Called I, and none answered ? 

Is mine hand indeed shortened, that it cannot 
redeem ? 

And have I no power to deliver? 

Behold, at my rebuke I make dry the sea ; 

I make the rivers a desert: 

Their fish is become putrid, because there is no 

water ; 
And dieth away for thirst. 

3 I clothe the heavens with blackness ; 
And sackcloth I make their covering. 

4 The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue 

of the learned ; 
That I might know how to speak a seasonable 

word to the weary. 
He wakeneth morning by morning, 
He wakeneth mine ear, to hearken with the 

attention of a learner. 

5 The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear; 
And I was not rebellious ; 

Neither did I withdraw myself backward. 

6 I gave my back to the smiters, 



156 



ISAIAH. CHAP. L. 



And my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: 
My face I hid not from shame and spitting. 

7 For the Lord Jehovah is ray helper : 
Therefore I am not ashamed. 
Therefore have I set my face like a flint ; 
And I know that I shall not be confounded. 

8 He that justified me is near at hand : 

Who is he that will contend with me ? let us 

stand forth together : 
Who is mine adversary? lethim come near to me, 

9 Behold, the Lord Jehovah is my helper ; 
Who is he that shall condemn me ? 

Lo ! all of them shall wax old as a garment ; 
The moth shall consume them. 

10 Whois thereamong youthatfeareth Jehovah? 
That hearkeneth unto the voice of his servant : 
That walketh in darkness and hath no light? 
Let him trust in the name of Jehovah ; 

And rest himself on the support of his God. 

11 Behold, all ye who kindle a fire ; 
Who are begirt with burning arrows : 
Walk ye in the light of your fire, 

And amid the burning arrows which ye have 
kindled. 

From my hand shall this befal you ; 
In sorrow ye shall lie down. 



CHAP. LI. 



ISAIAH. 



157 



CHAP. LI. 

1 Hearken unto me, ye that follow after 

righteousness, 
Ye that seek Jehovah: 

Look unto the rock, from whence ye were hewn; 
And to the hole of the pit, whence ye were digged . 

2 Look unto Abraham your father; 
And unto Sarah, who bare you : 

For I have called him, being a single person, 
And 1 have blessed him, and have multiplied 
him. 

3 For Jehovah shall comfort Zion; 

He will comfort all her desolate places : 
And he will make her wilderness like Eden; 
And her desert like the garden of Jehovah : 
Joy and gladness shall be found in her ; 
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. 

4 Attend unto me, my people ; 
And give ear unto me, O my nation : 
For the law from me shall proceed ; 

And my judgment will I cause to break forth 
for a light to the peoples. 

5 My righteousness is at hand ; my salvation 

goeth forth ; 
And mine arm shall dispense judgment to the 
peoples : 

Unto me shall the isles look with expectation 
And on mine arm shall they wait. 



158 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LI. 



6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, 
And look to the earth beneath : 

Verily the heavens shall pass away, like smoke; 
And the earth shall wax old, like a garment; 
And its inhabitants shall likewise perish : 
But my salvation shall endure for ever; 
And my righteousness shall not decay. 

7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteous- 

ness ; 

The people in whose heart is my law : 
Fear not the reproach of mortal man ; 
Neither be ye borne down by their revilings : 

8 For the moth shall consume them, like a gar- 

ment ; 

And the worm shall eat them, like wool: 
But my righteousness shall endure for ever ; 
Aud my salvation from generation to generation « 

9 Awake, awake, clothe thyself with strength, 

O Arm of Jehovah ! 
Awake, as in the days of old, the ancient gene- 
rations. 

Art thou not the same, that smote Rahab, that 
wounded the dragon ? 

10 Art thou not the same, that dried up the sea, 

the waters of the great deep ? 
That made the depths of the sea a path for the 
redeemed to pass over ) 

11 Thus shall the ransomed of Jehovah return, 



CHAP. LI. 



ISAIAH. 



159 



And corse to Zion with loud acclamation : 
And everlasting gladness shall rest upon their 
head 

Joy and gladness shall they obtain, 
And sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 

12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you : 

Who art thou, that thou shouldest fear man, 
that dieth ; 

And the son of man, that shall become as the 
grass ? 

13 And shouldest forget Jehovah thy maker, 
Who hath stretched out the heavens, and hath 

founded the earth; 
And shouldest fear continually, every day, 
Because of the fury of the oppressor, 
As if he were just ready to destroy : 
And where now is the fury of the oppressor? 

14 The prisoner shall soon be released : 
He shall not die in the pit, 
Neither shall his bread fail. 

16 For I am Jehovah thy God ; 

He, who setteth the sea in commotion : 
Jehovah of hosts is his name. 

16 I have put my words in thy mouth ; 

And with the shadow of my hand have I 

covered thee : 
That I may plant the heavens, and lay the 

foundations of the earth ; 
And say unto Zion, Thou art my people. 

17 Awake, awake; stand up, O Jerusalem ! 



160 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LI. 



Which hast drunken from the hand of Jehovah 

the cup of his fury : 
The dregs of the cup of trembling, hast thou 

drunken; thou hast wrung them out. 

18 There is not one to guide her. of all the sons 

which she hath brought forth. 
Neither is there one to support her by the hand* 
of all the sons which she hath brought up. 

19 These two things have befallen thee, who shall 

bemoan thee ? 
Desolation, and destruction ; the famine, and 
the sword ; by whom shall I comfort thee ? 

20 Thy sons have fainted away ; they lie down at 

the head of ail the streets, 
As a stag in a net ; 

Being full of the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke 
of thy God. 

21 Wherefore hear now this, O thou afflicted 

daughter ; 
And thou drunken, but not with wine. 

22 Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah ; 

And thy God, who pleadeth for his people ; 
Behold, I take from thy hand the cup of trem- 
bling ; 

The dregs of the cup of my fury ; 
Thou shalt no more drink it again. 

23 But 1 will put it into the hand of them that 

afflict thee ; 

Who have said to thy soul. Bow down, that 
we may go over : 



CHAP. LII. 



ISAIAH. 



And thou bowest down thy back, as the ground; 
And as the street, to them that pass along. 

CHAP. LII. 

1 Awake, awake; be clothed with thy strength, 

O Zion: 

Clothe thyself with thy glorious garments, O 

Jerusalem, thou holy city ! 
For no more shall enter into thee the uncircum- 

cised and the polluted. 

2 Shake thyself from the dust, arise, and sit 

down, O Jerusalem : 
Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O 
captive daughter of Zion ! 

3 For thus saith Jehovah : 
For nought have ye been sold ; 

And not with money shall ye be ransomed. 

4 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah : 

To Egypt did my people go down aforetime to 

sojourn there : 
And the Assyrian hath oppressed them without 

cause. 

5 A n d n o w , w h a t h a v e 1 1 o d o he r e , s ai th J e n o v a n : 
Seeing that my people is taken away for nought ; 
Their rulers howl, saith Jehovah ; 

And continually, every day, is my name blas- 
phemed : 

6 Therefore shall my people know my name in 

that day : 

For I am He, who hath promised ; lo! here I am . 



162 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LII. 



7 How beautiful upon the mountains 

Are the feet of the joyful messenger ; of him 

that aunounceth peace ! 
Of the joyful messenger of good tidings ; of 

him that announceth salvation ! 
Of him that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth ! 

8 The voice of thy watchmen ! they lift up the 

voice ; they shout together : 
For face to face shall they see, 
When Jehovah restoreth Zion. 

9 Burst forth into joy, shout together, 
Ye waste places of Jerusalem ! 

For Jehovah hath comforted his people, 
He hath redeemed Jerusalem. 

10 Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm, in the 

sight of all the nations ; 
And all the ends of the earth have seen the sal- 
vation of our God. 

11 Depart, depart ye, go ye out from thence ; 
Touch no polluted thing : 

Go ye out from the midst of her ; 
Be ye clean, O ye that bear the vessels of 
Jehovah ! 

12 Verily not in haste shall ye go forth ; 
And not by flight shall ye march along : 
For Jehovah shall march in your front ; 
And the God of Israel shall bring up your rear. 



CHAP. L1II. ISAIAH. 



163 



13 Behold, my servant shall prosper; 

He shall be raised aloft, and exalted, and be 
very high. 

14 As many were astonished at thee ; 

(His countenance was disfigured more than 
any man ; 

And his form more than the sons of men ;) 

15 So shall he set in joyful astonishment many 

nations : 

Before him shall kings sbut their mouths ; 
For what was not before declared unto them, 

they shall see; 
And what they had not heard, they shall perceive. 

CHAP. LIII. 

1 Who hath believed our report ; 

And to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been 
revealed ? 

2 For he hath grown up like a tender shoot, before 

him ; 

And like a root out of a dry ground : 

H e h a t h n o f o r m , n o r g i o r y ; a n d w h e n w e s e e h i m , 

There is no beauty, that we should desire him. 

3 He hath been despised, and the most abject of 

men ; 

A man of sorrows, and conspicuous through 
grief ; 

And as one that hideth his face from us : 
He hath been despised, and we have esteemed 
him not. 



164 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LIII. 



4 Surely our infirmities he hath borne ; 
And our sorrows, he hath carried them : 
Yet we did esteem him stricken ; 
Smitten of God, and afflicted. 

5 But he hath been pierced for our transgressions ; 
Hath been bruised for our iniquities: 

The chastisement, by which ourpeace is effected, 

hath been laid upon him ; 
And by his stripes we are healed. 

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; 

We have turned aside, every one to his own 
way; 

And Jehovah hath caused to fall upon him 
the iniquity of us all : 

7 It was exacted; and he became answerable, 

and hath not opened his mouthy 
Asa lamb that is led to the slaughter, 
And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb 3 
So he opened not his mouih. 

8 By an oppressive judgment he hath been taken 

off; 

And his manner of life who would declare ? 
For he hath been cut off from the land of the 
living; 

For the transgression of my people hath he 
been stricken. 
0 Though his sepulchre was appointed with the 
wicked ; 

Yet it was with the rich at his death, 
Because he had done no violence ; 



CHAP. LIY, 



ISAIAH. 



165 



Neither was any deceit found in his mouth. 
10 And it hath pleased Jehovah to bruise him ; 
he hath caused him to be afflicted: [saying] 
If his soul shall become a trespass offering, 
He shall see [his] seed ; he shall prolong [his] 
days, 

And the gracious purpose of Jehovah shall 
prosper in his hands. 
1 1 Of the travail of his soul he shall see, and shall 
be satisfied ; 
By his knowledge shall my righteous servant 

justify many ; 
For he shall bear their iniquities. 
12 Therefore will I distribute to him the many for 
his portion ; 

And the mighty people shall he share for his 
spoil : 

Because he hath poured out his soul unto 
death ; 

And hath been numbered with the transgressors : 
And he hath borne the sin of many ; 
And hath made intercession for the trans- 
gressors. 

CHAP. LIV. 

1 Shout for joy, O thou barren, that didst not 
bear ; 

Break forth into joyful shouting, and exult, thou 

that didst not travail : 
For more are the children of the desolate, 



166 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LIV. 



Than the children of the married woman, saith 
Jehovah, 

2 Enlarge the place of thy tent ; 

And let the curtains of thy tabernacles be 

extended : 
Spare not; lengthen thy cords, 
And firmly fix thy stakes : 

3 For on thy right hand, and on the left, thou 

shalt burst forth with increase; 
And thy seed shall inherit the nations ; 
And they shall inhabit the desolate cities. 

4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded; 
And blush not, for thou shalt not be brought 

to reproach : 
For thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth; 
And the reproach of thy widowhood thou shalt 

remember no more : 

5 For thy husband is thy maker ; 
Jehovah of hosts is his name : 

And thy Kedeemer is the Holy One of Israel : 
The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 

6 For as a woman forsaken, and vexed in spirit, 

hath Jehovah called thee; 
And as a wife, wedded in youth, but afterward 
rejected, saith thy God. 

7 For a short moment have I forsaken thee ; 
But with great mercies will I receive thee 

again : 

8 In vehemence of wrath I hid my face for a 

moment from thee ; 



CHAP. LIV. 



ISATAH. 



167 



But with everlasting kindness will I have 

mercy on thee ; 
Saith thy redeemer Jehovah. 
9 For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me, 

when I sware, 
That the waters of Noah should no more pass 

over the earth; 
So have I sworn, that I will not be wroth with 

thee, nor rebuke thee. 

10 Although the mountains should depart; 
And the hills be removed ; 

Yet my kindness from thee shall not depart; 
And my covenant of peace shall not be 
removed ; 

Saith Jehovah, who beareth towards thee the 
most tender affection. 

11 O thou afflicted, beaten with the storm, 

destitute of consolation ! 
Behold, I lay thy stones in cement of ver- 
milion, 

And thy foundations with sapphires : 

12 And I will make of rubies thy battlements ; 
And thy gates of carbuncles ; 

And the whole circuit of thy walls shall be of 
precious stones. 

13 And all thy children shall be taught by 

Jehovah ; 

And great shall be the prosperity of thy 
children. 

14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: 



1(38 



ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LV. 



Be thou far from oppression ; for thou shalt 

not fear ; 

And from terror; for it shall not approach thee # 
15 Behold, they shall be leagued together, but not 
by my command ; 
Whosoever is leagued against thee, shall come 
over to thy side. 
10 Behold. I have created the smith, 
Who bloweth up the coals into a fire, 
And produceth instruments according to his 
work ; 

And I have created the destroyer to lay waste. 
17 Whatever weapon is formed against thee, it 
shall not prosper ; 
And every tongue that riseth up against thee in 

judgment, thou shalt prove guilty. 
This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, 
And their justification is of me, saith Jehovah. 

CHAP. LV. 

1 Ho ! every one that thirsteth, come ye to the 

waters ! 

And he that hath no money, come ye, buy, and 

eat ; 

Yea, come, buy ye wine and milk, 
Without money and without price. 

2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is 

not bread? 

And your labour, for that which will not 

satisfy ? 



CHAP. LV. 



ISAIAH. 



169 



Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that 

which is good; 
And let your soul delight itself in fatness. 
2 Incline your ear, and come unto me; 
Hear, and your soul shall live: 
And I will make with you an everlasting 

covenant ; 
Even the sure mercies of David, 
4 Behold, for a commander to the peoples I have 

given him ; 
A chief and a ruler to the peoples* 
o Behold, a nation, which thou knewest not 5 

shalt thou call ; 
And a nation, which knew not thee, shall run 

unto thee : 
For the sake of Jehovah thy God; 
And for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath 

glorified thee. 

6 Seek ye Jehovah, while he may be found ; 
Call ye upon him, while he is near : 

7 Let the wicked forsake his way, 

And the unrighteous man his thoughts ; 

And let him return unto Jehovah, that he may 
have compassion upon him; 

And unto our God ; for he aboundeth in for- 
giveness. 

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts; 
Neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah. 

■9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth ; 
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CHAP. LV1. 



So are my ways higher than your ways, 
And my thoughts than your thoughts. 

10 Verily, like as the rain descendeth, 
And the snow from the heavens ; 
And returneth not thither : 

But watereth the earth, 
And maketh it bring forth and bud ; 
That it may give seed to the sower, and bread 
to the eater : 

11 So shall my word be, which goeth forth from 

my mouth ; 
It shall not return unto me fruitless ; 
But it shall perform what I have willed ; 
And shall accomplish that, for which I sent it, 

12 Surely with joy shall ye go forth, 

And with peace shall ye be led onward : 

The mountains and the hills shall break forth 

before you into song; 
And all the trees of the field shall clap their 

hands. 

13 Instead of thorny bushes shall grow up the fir- 

tree ; 

And instead of the bramble shall grow up the 
myrtle : 

And it shall be unto Jehovah for a name ; 
For a perpetual sign, which shall not be cut off, 

CHAP. LVI. 

1 Thus saith Jehovah : 

Keep ye judgment, and do justice ; 



CHAP. LVI. 



ISAIAH. 



171 



For my salvation is just ready to come ; 
And my righteousness to be revealed. 

2 Blessed is the man, that doeth this ; 

And the son of man, that layeth hold on it : 
That keepeth the sabbath, and profaneth it 
not; 

And restraineth his hand from doing any evil. 

3 And let not the son of the stranger speak, 
That cleaveth unto Jehovah, saying: 
Jehovah hath utterly separated me from his 

people. 

Neither let the eunuch say : 
Behold, I am a dry tree. 

4 For thus saith Jekovah unto the eunuchs, 
That keep my sabbaths, 

And choose that in which I delight, 
And lay hold of my covenant; 

5 To them will I give in my house, 

And within my walls, a memorial and a name, 
Better than that of sons and daughters : 
An everlasting name will I give them, 
Which shall never be cut off. 

6 And the sons of the stranger, who cleave unto 

Jehovah ; 

To minister unto him, and to love the name of 
Jehovah, 

And to become his servants : 

Every one that keepeth the sabbath, and pro- 
faneth it not; 

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And that layetli hold of my covenant : 

7 Thera will I bring unto my holy mountain ; 
And make them joyful in my house of prayer : 
Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall 

be accepted on mine altar ; 
For my house shall be called, The house of 
prayer for all the peoples . 

8 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, 

Who gathereth together the outcasts of Israel : 
Yet will I gather others unto him, beside those 
that are already gathered. 

9 O all ye beasts of the field, come to devour : 
O all ye beasts of the forest ! 

10 His watchmen are blind, all of them; they are 

ignorant ; 

They are all of them dumb dogs., they cannot 
bark : 

Dreaming, stretching along, loving to slumber, 

11 Yea these dogs are of untamed appetite ; 
They can never have enough. 

And the shepherds themselves cannot under- 
stand : 

They all of them turn aside to their own way; 
Each to his own gain, from the highest to the 
lowest. 

12 Come on, let me fetch wine ; 

And let us fill ourselves with strong drink ; 
And as this day shall to-morrow be; 
Great, even far more abundant. 



CHAP. LVII. 



ISAIAH. 



173 



CHAR LVII. 

1 The righteous man perisheth, and no man 

layeth it to heart ; 
And pious men are taken away^ and no one 
considereth 

That out of the way of evil the righteous man 
is taken away. 

2 He shall go in peace ; 

They shall rest upon their beds, 
Every one that walketh in the straight path 
before him. 

3 But ye, draw ye near hither, O ye sons of 

the sorceress ; 
Ye seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot ! 

4 Of whom do ye make your sport ? 

At whom do ye widen the mouth, and put out 
the tongue ? 

Are ye not children of apostasy, a lying gene- 
ration ? 

5 Burning with the lust of idols under every green 

tree ; 

Slaying the children in the valleys, under the 
clefts of the rocks ? 

6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is thy 

portion ; 
These, these are thy lot : 

Even to these thou hast poured forth a drink- 
offering, 

Thou hast offered up a meat-offering. 



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ISAIAH. CHAP. LVII. 



Shall I be comforted by these things ? 

7 Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast set 

thy bed : 

Even thither thou hast gone up to ofler sacrifice. 

8 Behind the door and the door-posts thou hast 

set thy memorial ; 
For to another than me thou hast uncovered 
thyself, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged 
thy bed ; 

And thou hast made a covenant with them : 

Thou hast loved their bed, 

The place which thou hast chosen. 

9 And thou hast visited the kiug with a present 

of oil ; 

And hast multiplied thy precious ointments: 
And thou hast sent thine ambassadors far off; 
And hast debased thyself even to Hades. 

10 In the length of thy journeys thou didst weary 

thyself ; 

Thou saidst not, There is no hope : 
Thou didst find vigour of strength ; 
Therefore thou hast not utterly fainted. 

11 And of whom hast thou been fearful and afraid : 

that thou shouldest deal falsely r 
Whereas thou hast not remembered me ; nor 

hast laid it to thine heart? 
Have I not been silent, even from of old, 
And thou fearest me not? 

12 I will declare thy righteousness; 

And thy works, but they shall not profit thee. 



CHAP. LVII. ISAIAH. 



175 



13 When thou criest, let thine associates deliver 

thee : 

But the wind shall carry them all away ; a 

breath shall take them off. 
But he that trusteth in me shall inherit the land . 
And shall possess my holy mountain. 

14 For then shall he say : Cast up, cast up the 

causeway ; make clear the way ; 
Remove every stumbling-block from the way of 
my people. 

15 For thus saith the high, and the lofty One, 
That inhabiteth eternity, and whose name is 

Holy : 

T dwell in the high and the holy place ; 
With him also that is of a contrite and humble 
spirit : 

To revive the spirit of the humble ; 
And to revive the heart of the contrite. 

16 For I will not alway contend ; 
Neither for ever will I be wroth : 

For the spirit from before me would languish 
away ; 

And the living souls, which I have made. 

17 For the iniquity of his avarice was I wroth ; 
And i smote him, hiding my face, and was wroth : 
But he went on frowardly in the way of his 

own heart. 

18 I have seen his ways ; and I will heal him. 

and will be his guide ; 



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ISAIAH. CHAP. LVIII. 



And I will restore comforts to him, and to his 
mourners. 

19 I create the fruit of the lips : 
Peace, peace, to him that is afar off, 

And to him that is near, saith Jehovah; and 
I will heal him. 

20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; 
For it never can be at rest; 

But its waters cast up filth and mire. 

21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. 

CHAP. LVIII. 

1 Cry aloud ; spare not : 

Lift up thy voice like a trumpet; 

And declare unto my people their transgression; 

And to the house of Jacob their sin, 

2 Yet they seek me daily ; 

And delight to know my ways : 
As a nation that did righteousness, 
Andhadnotforsakenthe ordinance oftheirGod. 
They ask of me righteous ordinances ; 
They take delight to draw nigh unto God. 

3 Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not ? 
Have afflicted our souls, and thou dost not 

regard? 

Behold, in the day of your fasting ye find 
pleasure, 

And all your tasks of labour ye exact. 

4 Behold, ye fast for strife and contention ; 



CHAP. LVIII. 



ISAIAH. 



177 



And to smite with the fist of wickedness. 
Ye fast not this day, 

So as to cause your voice to be heard on high, 
o Is such then the fast, which I choose ; 
A day for a man to afflict his soul? 
Is it, that he should bow down his head like a 
bulrush ; 

And spread sackcloth and ashes under him I 

Wilt thou call this a fast, 

And a day acceptable to Jehovah : 
f> Is not this the fast, which I choose? 

To loosen the fetters of wickedness ; 

To untie the bands of the yoke ; 

And to let the oppressed go free. 

And that ye should break asunder every yoke.' 
7l s it not to distribute thy bread to the hungry; 

And to bring the poor that are persecuted into 
thy house ? 

When thou seest the naked, that thou clothe 
him ; 

And that thou hide not thyself from thine own 
flesh ? 

8 Then thy light shall break forth like the dawn ; 
And thy prosperity shall spring forth speedily: 
And thy righteousness shall go before thee; 
And the glory of Jehovah shall bring up thy 

rear. 

9 Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah shall 

answer; 

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ISAIAH, 



CHAP. LVIIL 



And thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Lo, I 
am here ! 

If thou remove from the midst of thee the yoke ; 
The pointing of the ringer, and the mischievous 
speech. 

10 If thou impart to the hungry, of thine own 

sustenance, 
And satisfy the afflicted soul; 
Then shall thy light rise in obscurity, 
And thy darkness shall be as the noon-day. 

11 And Jehovah shall guide thee continually, 
And satisfy thy soul in the severest drought ; 
And thy bones shall he strengthen : 

And thou shalt be like a well- watered garden, 

and like a flowing spring, 
Whereof the waters never fail. 

12 And they that spring from thee shall build the 

waste places of old; 
What lay in ruins from generation to generation 

shalt thou raise up : 
And thou shalt be called, The repairer of the 

breach ; 

The restorer W paths for the inhabitants. 

13 If thou refrain thy foot from the sabbath; 
From doing thy pleasure on my holy day : 
And shalt call the sabbath, a delight ; 
The holy of Jehovah, honourable: 

And shalt honour it, not doing thine own ways; 
Nor seeking thine own pleasure, nor using idle 
talk : 



CHAP. LIX. 



ISAIAH. 



179 



14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; 
And 1 will cause thee to ride on the high places 

of the earth ; 
And I will feed thee on the inheritance of Jacob 

thy father : 

For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it. 

CHAP. LIX. 

1 Behold, the hand of Jehovah is not 

shortened, that it cannot save ; 
Neither is his ear grown dull, that it cannot 
hear. 

2 But your iniquities have made a separation, 
Between you and your God ; 

And your sins have hidden his face from you, 
that he will not hear. 

3 For your hands are polluted with blood. 
And your fingers with iniquity : 

Your lips speak falsehood, 

And your tongue muttereth wickedness. 

4 No one preferreth his suit injustice, 
And no one pleadeth in truth : 
Trusting in vauity, and speaking lies, 

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 

5 They hatch the eggs of the basilisk, 
And weave the webs of the spider: 
He that eateth of their eggs, dieth ; 

And when it is crushed, a viper breaketh forth, 

6 Their webs shall not become garments, 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LIX. 



Neither shall they cover themselves with their 

works : 

Their works are works of iniquity, 

And the deed of violence is in their hands. 

7 Their feet run swift to evil, 

And they hasten to shed innocent blood : 
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; 
Ruin and devastation are in their paths. 

8 The way of peace they know not ; 

And there is no regard to right in their goings: 
They have made to themselves crooked paths ; 
Whoso walketh in them, shall not know peace. 

9 Therefore is judgment far distant from us; 
Neither doth deliverance draw near to us : 
We look for light, but behold darkness ; 
For brightness, but we walk in gloom. 

10 We grope for the wall like the blind ; 

And we grope, as those that are deprived of sight; 
We stumble at mid-day, as in the dark : 
In the midst of plenty, like unto the dead. 

11 We roar like bears, every one of us ; 
And like the doves we continually moan. 
We look for judgment, and there is none; 
For salvation, and it is far distant from us. 

12 For our transgressions are multiplied before 

thee ; 

And our sins testify against us ; 

For our transgressions cleave fast unto us ; 

And as for our iniquities, we know them. 

13 We have apostatized, and havedenied Jehovah; 



CHAP. LIX. 



ISAIAH. 



181 



And have departed away from our God ; 
Speaking oppression and revolt, 
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words 
of falsehood. 

14 And judgment is turned away backwards, 
And justice standeth aloof: 

For truth hath stumbled in the court of justice; 
And rectitude hath not been able to enter. 

15 Yea, truth is utterly lost; 

And he that shunneth evil, maketh himself a 

prey : 
And Jehovah saw it, 

And it displeased him, that there was no judg- 
ment. 

16 And he saw, that there was no man ; 

And he wondered, that there was no one to 
interpose : 

Therefore his own arm wrought salvation for 
him ; 

And his righteousness, it supported him. 

17 And he put on righteousness, as a coat of mail; 
And the helmet of salvation was on his head : 
And he put on the garments of vengeance for 

clothing ; 

And he clad himself with zeal, as with a mantle. 

18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will 

requite ; 

Wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his 
enemies ; 

To the islands a recompense will he requite. 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LX, 



19 And they from the west shall revere the name 

of Jehovah ; 
And they from the rising of the sun, his glory : 
For he shall come as a river straitened in its 

course, 

Which the breath of Jehovah driveth onward, 

20 For the Redeemer shall come to Zion, 

And unto them that turn from transgression in 

Jacob, 
Saith Jehovah. 

21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith 

Jehovah : 
My spirit, which is upon thee, 
And my words, which I have put in thy mouth; 
They shall not depart from thy mouth, 
Nor from the mouth of thy seed, 
'Nor from the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith 

Jehovah ; 
From this time forth for ever. 

CHAP. LX. 

1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come; 

And the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee, 

2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth: 
And thick darkness the nations : 

But upon thee shall Jehovah arise, 
And his glory shall be seen upon thee. 

3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, 
And kings to the brightness of thy rising. 



CHAP. LX. ISAIAH. 



183 



4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see ; 

All of them are gathered together, they come 

unto thee : 
Thy sons shall come from far ; 
And thy daughters shall be carried at the side. 

5 Then shalt thou fear, and overflow with joy; 
And thy heart shall throb, and become dilated; 
When the riches of the sea shall be poured in 

upon thee ; 

And the wealth of the nations shall come unto 
thee. 

6 A multitude of camels shall cover thee; 
The dromedaries of Midian and Epha ; 
All of them from Saba, shall come : 
Gold and frankincense shall they bear; 

And the praise of Jehovah shall they proclaim. 

7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered unto 

thee ; 

The rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: 
They shall ascend with acceptance on mine altar; 
And my beauteous house I will yet beautify. 

8 Who are these, that fly like a cloud? 
And like doves to their holes? 

9 Verily the isles shall await me ; 

And the ships of Tarshish among the first: 
To bring thy sons from afar; 
Their silver and their gold with them : 
Because of the name of Jehovah thy God ; 
And of the Holy One of Israel; for he hath 
glorified thee. 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LX, 



10 And the sons of the stranger shall build up thy 

walls ; 

And their kings shall minister unto thee : 

For in my wrath I smote thee ; 

But in my favour have I had mercy on thee. 

11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually ; 
By day. or by night, they shall not be shut; 
To bring unto thee the wealth of the nations ; 
And their kings royally attended. 

12 For that nation and that kingdom, 
Which will not serve thee, shall perish; 
Yea, those nations shall be utterly desolated.. 

13 The glory of Lebanon shall come uuto thee; 
The fir-tree, the pine, and the box together : 
To beautify the place of my sanctuary ; 

And that I may glorify the place, whereon I 
rest my feet. 

14 And the sons of thiue oppressors shall come 

bending before thee : 
And ail they that despised thee, shall bow them 

unto the soles of thy feet : 
And they shall call thee, The city of Jehovah; 
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 

15 Instead of thy being forsaken, 

And hated, so that no one passed through thee; 
I will make thee an eternal excellency, 
A subject of joy for perpetual generations. 

16 And thou shalt suck the milk of nations; 
Even at the breast of kings shalt thou be fos- 
tered ; 



CHAP, LX. 



ISAIAH. 



185 



And thou shalt know, that I Jehovah am thy 
Saviour ; 

And thy Redeemer is the Mighty One of Jacob. 

17 Instead of brass, I will bring gold ; 
And instead of iron, I will bring silver; 
And instead of wood, brass ; 

And instead of stones, iron. 

And upon thy officers I will bestow peace ; 

And upon thy rulers, righteousness* 

18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land ; 
Destruction and ruin, in thy borders: 

But thou shalt call thy walls salvation ; 
And thy gates, praise. 

19 No more shall the sun be unto thee a light by 

day; 

Neither shall the brightness of the moon en- 
lighten thee : 

For Jehovah shall be unto thee an everlasting 
light, 

And thy God shall be thy glory. 

20 Thy sun shall no more go down ; 
Neither shall thy moon wane : 

For Jehovah shall be unto thee an everlasting 
light, 

And the days of thy mourning shall be ended. 

21 And thy people shall all be righteous ; 
For ever they shall inherit the land ; 

The branch of my planting, the work of my 
hands, that I may be glorified. 

22 The little one shall become a thousand ; 



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ISAIAH. CHAP. LXI. 



And the small one a strong nation : 

I Jehovah in its due time will hasten it. 

CHAP. LXI. 

1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; 
Because Jehovah hath anointed me: 

To publish glad tidings to the meek hath he 

sent me ; 
To bind up the broken-hearted, 
To proclaim liberty to the captives, 
And to them that are bound deliverance from 

prison ; 

2 To proclaim the year of acceptance with 

Jehovah, 
And the day of vengeance of our God ; 
To comfort all that mourn ; 

3 To give unto the mourners of Zion, 

To give unto them ornament, instead of ashes ; 
The oil of gladness, instead of sorrow ; 
The clothing of praise, instead of the spirit of 
heaviness ; 

That they might be called the trees of righteous- 
ness, 

The plantation of Jehovah for his glory. 

4 And they shall buildup the ruins of old times; 
They shall restore the former desolations : 
And shall repair the cities laid waste: 

The desolations of many generations. 

5 And the strangers shall stand up, and feed 

your flocks; 



CHAP. LXI. 



ISAIAH. 



187 



And the sons of the alien shall be your husband- 
men and vine-dressers. 

6 But ye shall be called the priests of Jehovah ; 
The ministers of our God, shall men call you. 
The riches of the nations shall ye eat; 

And in their glory shall ye make your boast. 

7 Instead of your shame, ye shall receive a 

double reward ; 
And [instead of] reproach, they shall rejoice in 

their portion ; 
For in their land a double share shall they inherit: 
Everlasting joy shall be unto them, 

8 For I Jehovah love judgment ; 
I hate rapine and iniquity ; 

And I will give them the reward of their work 

with faithfulness; 
And an everlasting covenant I will make with 

them. 

9 And their seed shall be illustrious among the 

nations; 

And their offspring in the midst of the peoples. 
All they that see them shall acknowledge 
them, 

That they are a seed, which Jehovah hath 
blessed. 

10 I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, 
My soul shall exult in my God ; 
For he hath clothed me with the garments of 
salvation ; 



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ISAIAH. 



CHAP. LXII. 



He hath covered me with the mantle of 
righteousness : 

Asa bridegroom decketh himself with orna- 
ments ; 

And as a bride adorneth herself with her nuptial 
attire. 

11 Surely, as the earth bringeth forth her bud ; 
And as a garden causeth the things that are 

sown in it to spring forth : 
So shall the Lord Jehovah cause righteousness 

to spring forth, 
And praise, in the presence of all the nations. 

CHAP. LXII. 

1 For Zion's sake, I will not keep silence ; 
And for the sake of Jerusalem I will not rest : 
Until her righteousness go forth as brightness ; 
And her salvation, like a torch that burnetii. 

2 And the nations shall see thy righteousness ; 
And all the kings, thy glory : 

And thou shalt be called by a new name, 
Which the mouth of Jehovah shall name. 

3 And thou shalt be a beautiful crown in the 

hand of Jehovah, 
And a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 

4 No more shall it be said unto thee, Thou for- 

saken ! 

Neither to thy land shall it be said any more, 

Thou desolate ! 
Butthou shaltbe called, The object of my delight; 



CHAP. LXII. 



ISAIAH, 



189 



And thy land, The wedded matron : 
For Jehovah shall delight in thee; 
And thy land shall be joined in marriage. 

5 For asayoungmanespouseth himself to a virgin, 
So shall thy sons espouse themselves to thee : 
And as the bridegroom rejoiceth in his bride, 
So shall thy God rejoice in thee. 

6 Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, have I set 

watchmen: 

All the day and all the night long they shall 
not keep silence. 

0 ye, that mention Jehovah, keep not silence, 

7 And give him no rest 

Until he establish, and until he make Jerusalem 
a praise in the earth. 
3 Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and 
by his powerful arm : 

1 will no more give thy corn for food to thine 

enemies ; 

And the sons of the stranger shall not drink 
thy wine for which thou hast laboured : 
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, 

And shall praise Jehovah : 

And they that brought it in, shall drink it in 
the courts of my holiness. 

10 Pass ye, pass through the gates ; 
Prepare the way for the people ; 



190 



ISAIAH. CHAP. LXIII, 



Cast up, cast up the causeway, clear it of stones; 
Lift up on high a standard to the nations. 

11 Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the 

end of the earth : 
Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy 

Saviour cometh ! 
Behold, his reward is with him, and the re- 

compence of his work before him. 

12 And they shall be called, The holy people, 

The redeemed of Jehovah : 
And thou shalt be called, The much frequented. 
The city unforsaken. 

CHAP. LXIII. 

1 Who is this that cometh from Edom ? 
With dyed garments from Bozrah ? 
This, that is glorious in his apparel ; 
Marching onward in the greatness of his strength? 
I, who speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 

2 Wherefore is thine apparel red? 

And thy garments, as of one that treadeth the 
wine- vat } 

3 I have trodden the wine-press alone ; 

And of the peoples there was not a man with 
me : 

For I trod them in mine anger ; 
And trampled them in mine indignation ; 
So that their blood was sprinkled upon my 
garments ; 



CHAP. LXIII. 



ISAIAH. 



191 



And I stained all mine apparel. 

4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart : 
And the year of my redeemed was come. 

5 And I looked, and there was no one to help ; 
And I was astonished that there was no one 

to uphold : 

Therefore mine own arm wrought salvation for 
me, 

AvA mine indignation, it upheld me. 

6 And I trod down the peoples in mine anger ; 
And made them drunk in mine indignation ; 
And made their blood to sink down into the 

earth. 

7 The lovingkindnesses of Jehovah will I 

mention, the praises of Jehovah ; 
According to all that Jehovah hath bestowed 
upon us : 

And his great goodness towards the house of 
Israel ; 

Which he hath bestowed upon them, according 
to his mercies, and according to his great 
kindness. 

8 For he said : Surely they are my people, 
Children that will not prove false ; 

So he became their Saviour. 

9 In all their adversity, he was not their adversary; 
But the angel of his presence saved them : 

In his love, and in his clemency, He redeemed 
them ; 



192 



ISAIAH. CHAP. LXIIl. 



And he took them up, and he carried them, all 
the days of old. 

10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit ; 
Therefore he was turned to be their enemy, 
And he fought against them. 

11 Then remembered his people those ancient 

days of Moses : 
Where is he, who brought them up from the 

sea with the shepherd of his flock } 
Where is he, who put his holy Spirit within him? 

12 Who caused his own glorious arm to march at 

the right hand of Moses, 
Dividing the waters before them, 
To make to himself an everlasting name? 

13 Who led them through the depths of the sea, 
As a horse through a desert, that they should 

not stumble ? 

14 As the herd descendeth to the valley, 

The Spirit of Jehovah hath caused them to 
rest : 

So didst thou lead thy people, 

To make to thyself a glorious name. 

15 Look down from heaven, and see from thy 

holy and glorious dwelling : 
Where is thy zeal and thy might, 
The yearning of thy bowels, and thy tender af- 
fections toward me? Are they restrained? 

16 Doubtless thou art our Father ; 
For Abraham knoweth us not, 

And Israel doth not acknowledge us. 



CHAP. LXIV. 



ISAIAH. 



193 



Thou, O Jehovah, art our Father : 

Our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name. 

17 Wherefore, O Jehovah, dost thou suffer us to 

err from thy ways ? 
Dost harden our hearts from thy fear? 
Return for the sake of thy servants, 
The tribes of thine inheritance. 

18 Thy holy people have possessed the land but 

a little time ; 
Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanc- 
tuary : 

19 We have long been as those, whom thou hast 

not ruled; 

Who have not been called by thy name, 

CHAP. LXIV. 

1 O ! that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that 

thou wouldest descend ; 
That the mountains might melt at thy presence! 

2 As the fire kindleth the dry fuel ; 

As the fire causeth the waters to boil : 

To make known thy name to thine enemies ; 

That the nations might tremble at thy presence. 

3 When thou didst wonderful things, which we 

expected not 3 
Thou didst descend ; at thy presence the moun- 
tains melted. 

4 For never have men heard, nor perceived by 

the ear ; 

x 



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ISAIAH, 



CHAP. LXIV, 



Neither hath eye seen a god beside Thee, 
Who doeth such things for those that trust in 
him. 

5 Thou meetest those that rejoice and do justice, 
They that remember thee in thy ways : 
Behold, as for thee, thou wast wroth, when we 

sinned ; 

Thou hast been against them of old, but we 
shall be saved. 

6 But we are all as an unclean thing ; 

And all our righteousnesses as a garment of 

filthiness : 
And we are all withered as a leaf ; 
And our iniquities, like the wind, have borne 

us away. 

7 There is not one that calleth upon thy name; 
That stirreth up himself to take hold on thee : 
Therefore thou hast hidden thy face from us, 
And hast caused us to melt away by reason of 

our sins. 

8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father ; 
We are the clay, and thou hast formed us : 
We are all of us the work of thy hand. 

9 Be not wroth, O Jehovah, to the uttermost; 
Neither for ever remember iniquity : 
Behold, look upon us, we beseech thee; we are 

all thy people. 
10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness ; 

Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a de- 
solation. 



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11 Our holy and our beautiful house, 
Wherein our fathers praised thee, 
Is utterly burnt up with fire ; 

And all the objects of our desire are become a 
devastation. 

12 Wilt thou contain thyself at these things, O 

Jehovah? 

Wilt thou keep silence, and still grievously af- 
flict us ? 



CHAP. LXV. 

1 I have answered unto those, who did not ask 

of me; 

I am found of them that sought me not: 

I have said : Behold me, behold me, 

To a nation that was not called by my name. 

2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a 

rebellious people, 
Who walk in an evil way after their own devices. 

3 A people, who provoke me to my face con- 

tinually ; 

Sacrificing in the gardens, and burning incense 
on the tiles : 

4 Who dwell in the sepulchres, and lodge in the 

caverns ; 
Who eat the flesh of swine; 
And broth of abominable meats is in their 

vessels. 

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CHAP. LXV. 



5 Who say: Keep to thyself; come not near me; 

for I am holy beyond thee. 
These are a smoke in my nostrils, 
A fire burning all the day long. 

6 Behold, it is in writing before me : 

I will not keep silence, but I will certainly re- 
compense; 
Even recompense into their bosom, 

7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers 

together, saith Jehovah ; 

For that they have burnt incense on the moun- 
tains, and reviled me upon the hills ; 

Yea, I will measure their former work into their 
bosom. 

8 Thus saith Jehovah : 

As when one findeth the must in a cluster of 
grapes ; 

And saith: Destroy it not; for a blessing is 
in it : 

So will I do for the sake of my servants; I will 
not destroy the whole. 

9 For I will cause to go forth from Jacob a seed. 
And from Judah an inheritor of my mountain; 
And my chosen shall inherit it; 

And my servants shall dwell there. 
10 And Sharon shall be a fold for the flock, 

And the valley of Achor a resting-place for the 
herd ; 

For my people that have sought me. 



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ISAIAH. 



11 But ye, who have deserted Jehovah ; 
And have forgotten my holy mountain : 
Who set in order a table for Gad ; 
And fill out a libation for Meni : 

12 You will I number out to the sword ; 

And all of you shall bow down to the slaughtt: : 

Because I called, and ye answered not; 

I spake, and ye would not hear : 

But ye did that, which is evil in my sight ; 

And chose that wherein I delighted not. 

13 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 
Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be 

famished ; 

Behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall 
be thirsty ; 

Behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall 
be ashamed : 

14 Behold, my servants shall sing aloud, for glad- 

ness of heart 5 
But ye shall cry aloud, for grief of heart; 
And ye shall howl through the anguish of a 

broken spirit. 

15 And ye shall leave your name for an oath unto 

my chosen ; 
And the Lord Jehovah shall slay you ; 
And his servants shall he call by another name. 

16 Whoso blesseth himself upon the earth, 
Shall bless himself by the God of truth : 
And whoso sweareth upon the earth, 
Shall swear by the God of truth. 



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Because the former troubles are forgotten; 
And because they are hidden from mine eyes. 

17 For behold, I create new heavens, and a new 

earth ; 

And the former shall not be remembered, 
Xor come into mind. 

18 But ye shall rejoice and exult for ever, whom 

I create ; 

For behold, I create Jerusalem an exultation, 
And her people a joy. 

19 And I will exult in Jerusalem, and I will re- 

joice in my people : 
And there shall not be heard any more therein 
The voice of weeping and the voice of a dis- 
tressful cry. 

20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, 
Or an old man, who hath not fulfilled his 

days; 

For the man of an hundred years shall die a 
child ; 

But the sinner, being an hundred years old, 
shall be accursed. 

21 And they shall build houses, and shall inhabit 

them ; 

And they shall plant vineyards, and eat the 
fruit of them. 

22 They shall not build, and another inhabit ; 
They shall not plant, and another eat : 

For as the days of a tree, shall be the days of 
my people ; 



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And my chosen shall long enjoy the work of 
their own hands. 

23 They shall not labour in vain, 

Xor bring forth children for instant death ; 
For they shall be a seed blessed of Jehovah ; 
They, and their offspring with them. 

24 And it shall be, that before they call, I will 

answer; 

And while they are yet speaking, I shall have 
heard. 

25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; 
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox: 
But as for the serpent, dust shall be his food. 
They shall not hurt, neither shall they destroy, 
In all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah. 

CHAP. LXVI. 

1 Thus saith Jehovah : 

The heaven is my throne ; and the earth is my 
footstool ; 

Where is the house, which ye build for me ? 
And where is the place of my rest? 

2 For all these things my hand hath made ; 
And they all of them exist, saith Jehovah. 
But to this man will I look, 

To him that is humble and of a contrite spirit, 
And that trembleth at my word. 

3 He that slayeth an ox, killeth a man ; 
That sacrificeth a lamb, beheadeth a dog; 



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That maketh an oblation, [offereth] swine's 
blood ; 

That burneth incense, blesseth an idol : 
Yea, they have chosen their own ways ; 
And their soul delighteth in their abominations. 

4 I will also choose the things most afflicting to 

them ; 

And what they dread, I will bring upon them : 
Because I called, and no one answered ; 
I spake, and they would not hear : 
And they have done, what is evil in my sight; 
And that, in which I delighted not, they have 
chosen. 

5 Hear ye the word of Jehovah, 
Ye that tremble at his word ; 

Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out, 
Say, Jehovah shall be glorified on account 

of my name : 
But He will appear to your joy, and they 

shall be ashamed. 

6 A voice of tumult from the city ! a voice 

from the temple ! 
The voice of Jehovah ! rendering recompense 
to his enemies. 

7 Before she was in travail, she brought forth : 
Before her pangs came, she was delivered of 
a male. 



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8 Who hath heard such a thing ? and who hath 

seen the like of these things ? 
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in 

one day ? 
Shall a nation be born at once ? 
For no sooner was Zion in travail, than she 

brought forth her children. 

9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to 

bring forth? saith Jehovah : 
Shall I, who beget, restrain the birth ? saith 
your God. 

10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, 

And exult on her account, all ye that love her : 
Joy with her exceedingly, 
All ye that mourn over her : 

11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied, from the 

breast of her consolations; 
That ye may press out, and be delighted with 
the abundant splendour of her glory. 

12 For thus saith Jehovah : 

Behold, I will extend peace to her like a 
river ; 

And the glory of the Gentiles like an overflow- 
ing stream : 
And ye shall suck at the breast; 
Ye shall be carried at the side ; 
And on the knees shall ye be dandled, 

13 As one, whom his mother comforteth ? 
So will I comfort you : 



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And in Jerusalem shall ye be comforted. 

14 And ye shall see it, and your heart shall 

rejoice ; 

And your bones shall flourish, like the green 
herb : 

And the hand of Jehovah shall be manifested 

to his servants ; 
And he will be moved with indignation against 

his enemies. 

15 For, behold ! Jehovah shall come in fire, 
And like the whirlwind, his chariots ; 

To requite his anger in a burning heat, 
And his rebuke in flames of fire. 

16 For by fire shall Jehovah execute judgment. 
And by his sword, upon all flesh; 

And many shall be the slain of Jehovah. 

17 They who sanctify themselves, and purify 

themselves 
In the gardens, one after the other openly ; 
Who eat swine's flesh, and what is abomi- 
nation, and the mouse; 
Together shall they perish saith Jehovah. 

18 As for me, O their works and their thoughts ! 
It shall come, that I will gather together all 

the nations and tongues; 
And they shall come, and shall see my 
glory. 

19 And I will set a sign among them : 



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And I will send those that escape of them, 

unto the nations ; 
To Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the 

bow, 

To Tubal and Javan ; to the isles afar off, 
That have not heard my fame ; 
Neither have seen my glory : 
And they shall declare my glory among the 
nations. 

20 And they shall bring all your brethren, 
From all the nations, for an oblation to 

Jehovah ; 
On horses, and in chariots, and in litters ; 
On mules, and on dromedaries ; 
To my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith 

Jehovah ; 

Like as the sons of Israel brought the oblation , 
In pure vessels, to the house of Jehovah. 

21 And of them will I also take, 

For priests, and for Levites > saith Jehovah, 

22 For like as the new heavens, 
And the new earth which I make, 
Remain before me. saith Jehovah ; 

So shall your seed, and your name remain. 

23 And it shall be, that from new moon to new 

moon, 

And from sabbath to sabbath, 

Shall all flesh come to worship before me, 

Saith Jehovah, 



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24 And they shall go forth, and shall see 

The carcases of those men, who have rebelled 

against me : 
For their worm shall not die, 
And their fire shall not be quenched ; 
And they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh. 



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